Quotes, aphorisms and phrases about hope, a feeling of confident expectation that something strongly desired will come true, translatable into the realization of a future good deemed difficult but not impossible to achieve.
Quotes about hope
- Even if I have helped one person to hope I will not have lived in vain. (Martin Luther King)
- Hope is a good thing, maybe the best and good things never die. (Tim Robbins)
- Refraining from judging implies infinite hope. (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald)
- Hope is helpful against waiting. But we must not only feed on hope, we must also find something to cook in it. (Ernst Bloch)
- Hope ceases to be happiness when accompanied by impatience. (John Ruskin)
- Every progress gives new hope, suspended to the solution of a new difficulty. (Claude Lévi Strauss)
- Being young means keeping the porthole of hope open, even when the sea is bad and the sky has grown tired of being blue. (Bob Dylan)
- Being able to raise a doubt for those who believe they have no hope should be everyone's certainty. (Timmytale)
- Hope, contrary to what is believed, is equivalent to resignation. And living is not resigning. (Albert Camus)
- The rose is more beautiful when it is blooming, and hope is more alive when it arises from fears. (Sir Walter Scott)
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- Hope is the companion of power, and the mother of success; because whoever strongly hopes has within himself the gift of miracles. (Samuel Smiles)
- Our hopes make us happy, until they come true. (Paul Rée)
- It is possible that they annihilate us, but tomorrow it will belong to the people, it will belong to the workers. Humanity is moving towards the conquest of a better life. (Salvador Allende)
- But hope doesn't go without saying. Hope does not go alone. To hope, one must be very happy, one must have obtained, received a great grace. (Charles Peguy)
- Despite the insurmountable difficulties, we all always wait for something extraordinary to happen to us. (Khaled Hosseini)
- It is necessary to hope, although hope is always frustrated, because hope itself constitutes happiness, and its disillusionments, however frequent they are, are less terrible than its extinction. (Samuel Johnson)
- I can bear my desperation, but not the hope of others. (Sir Robert Walpole)
In any case, hope leads further than fear. (Ernst Junger)
- Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push - a smile. A word of optimism and hope, a "you can do it!" when things get tough. (Richard M. Devos)
- You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. (Mahatma Gandhi)
- If you want to be successful in life, make perseverance your best friend, experience your wise adviser, caution your older brother and hope your guardian angel. (Joseph Addison)
- Hope is like the sun, which casts shadows behind all of us. (Samuel Smiles)
- Peoples live above all with hope. Their revolutions are meant to replace the old hopes that have lost their strength with a new hope. (Gustave Le Bon)
- A change in the environment is the traditional fallacious premise in which condemned loves and lungs place their hopes. (Vladimir Nabokov)
- And the sea will give every man new hopes, as sleep brings dreams. (Christopher Columbus)
- No, my great darling, I don't dream of wealth and success for you. But a job you like, skills that you can perfect, enthusiasms that illuminate your heart, friends and love in abundance. (Pam Brown)
- For his happiness, man needs not only to rejoice in this or that, but in hope and resourcefulness and change. (Bertrand Russell)
- Despite everything, I still believe that people are really good in their hearts. I simply cannot build my hopes on bases made of confusion, unhappiness and death. (Anne Frank)
- Do those who always hope or who never hoped for anything suffer more? (Pablo Neruda)
- Every time (often) when I do not understand something, instinctively the hope takes me that it is the right time again, and that I go back to not understanding anything, to take possession of that different wisdom, found and lost in it instant. (Italo Calvino)
- It is at night that it is good to believe in the light. (Edmond Rostand)
Aphorisms on hope
- Hope was my only comfort. The hope that perhaps, wherever he is, he has found as much peace, benevolence, love and happiness as is granted in this world. (Khaled Hosseini)
- Hopes have that certain destiny to fulfill, to be born from each other, and this is why, despite the many disappointments, they have not yet ended in this world. (José Saramago)
- If one has really lost hope, he would not be so willing to say it. (Eric Bentley)
- When there is no hope, it must be invented. (Albert Camus)
- A people leads by indicating a future: a leader is a seller of hope. (Honore De Balzac)
- If you lose hope, you somehow lose the vitality that keeps your existence moving, you lose the courage to be, the quality that helps you keep going in spite of everything. And so today I still have a dream. (Martin Luther King)
- Maybe I wait in vain, but I hope in a "I miss you" that caresses my soul. (Gustave Flaubert)
- Those who do not hope to win have already lost. (José Joaquin Olmedo)
- Without time, this invention of Satan, the world will lose the anguish of hope and the consolation of hope. (Antonio Machado Ruiz)
- The essence of optimism is not just looking beyond the present situation, but it is a vital force, the strength to hope when others resign themselves, the strength to hold one's head up when everything seems to fail, the strength to endure failures, a force that never leaves the future to its opponents, the future claims it for itself. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
- Faith climbs the stairs that love has built and looks through the window that hope has opened. (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
- Hope, however deceptive it may be, is at least to lead us to death by a pleasant path. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
- Do not give people suffering, but hope and courage. (John Murray)
- A man incapable of having visions will never achieve great hope nor will any great enterprise ever begin. (Woodrow Wilson)
- To desire meant to hope, and to hope to expect hope to come true. (Jane Austen)
- Our happiness depends not only on current joys but also on our hopes and memories. The present is enriched by the past and the future. (Emilie Du Chatelet)
- There is no night or problem capable of defeating dawn or hope. (Bernard Arthur Owen Williams)
- We must accept infinite disappointments, but never lose infinite hope. I'd rather be dead than afraid. (Martin Luther King)
- Love was a dangerous mistake and its accomplice, hope, an insidious illusion. (Khaled Hosseini)
- You have as much as you hope. Hope a lot, you will have a lot. (Father Pio)
- Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of hope, let us not let it be thwarted with immediate solutions and proposals that block us on the way, that "fragment" time, transforming it into space. Time is always greater than space. Space crystallizes processes, time projects instead towards the future and pushes us to walk with hope. (Pope francesco)
- Your soul does not miss the anchor of hope in the midst of the waves of tribulations. (Father Pio)
- I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. (Aeschylus)
- His equipment is composed of three things: faith, hope and love. If these three things are present, he has no hesitation in moving forward. (Paulo Coelho)
- You will cease to fear if you have ceased to hope. (Lucio Anneo Seneca)
- Although we have evidence that we must constantly live in darkness and darkness, without object and without purpose, we must have hope. (Pio Baroja)
- Friendship brings many and great advantages, but it presents one clearly superior to the others: it feeds good hopes that lighten the future and does not allow the soul to get depressed and depressed. (Guide)
- Sentimental music has great power: it brings you back the moment it brings you forward, so that you feel nostalgia and hope at the same time. (Nick Hornby)
- There were years of hope when it wasn't crazy to hope. (A.L.Rowse)
- It is difficult to define what is impossible, yesterday's dreams are today's hope and tomorrow's reality. (Robert Goddard)
- Children who have seen the war are the only hope for peace. (Pope John Paul II)
Phrases about hope
- Nothing will stop the sun from rising again, not even the darkest night. Because beyond the black curtain of the night there is a sunrise waiting for us. (Khalil Gibran)
- To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with a purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food. (Frederick Evan Crane)
- It will never be late to seek a new better world, if we put courage and hope in our efforts. (Lord Alfred Tennyson)
- Expectations often fail, and more often where they are most promising; and they often satisfy where hope is colder and desperation more fitting. (William Shakespeare)
- Do not consult with your fears, but with your hopes and your dreams. Do not think about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Do not worry about what you have tried and failed, but about what you can still do. (Pope John XXIII)
- It was stupid to hope. But sometimes hope is the only thing you have. (Cassandra Clare)
- The darkest hour is the one that precedes the sunrise. (Paulo Coelho)
- The dream allows anyone to survive. Those who dream never die, because they never despair. Dreaming means hope. (Joel Dicker)
- To get there at dawn there is no other way than the night. (Khalil Gibran)
- Life is a gift and every birthday is a new beginning: it ensures that every day is clothed with hope, so that the shadows of the past do not blur the light of the future. (Mary Ann Hathaway Tripp)
- Outside of God's mercy there is no other source of hope for human beings. (Pope John Paul II)
- It is right to navigate with hope and courage, but it is even better to surf with knowledge. (Travis Fimmel)
- There is no night so long as not to allow the Sun to rise again the next day. (Jim Morrison)
- If you do not hope for the unexpected, you will not find out, because it is closed to research, and it leads to no way. (Heraclitus)
- Happiness can be found even in the darkest moments, if only someone remembers to turn on the light. (J.K. Rowling)
- In peaceful moments remember to always fear adversity and in adversity remember to always hope for better things. (Cato The Censor)
- Hope has two beautiful children: indignation and courage. Disdain for the reality of things; the courage to change them. (St. Augustine)
- To withdraw is not to run away, and to remain is not a wise action, when there is more reason to fear than to hope. There is no wisdom in waiting when the danger is greater than hope and it is the duty of the wise man to keep his strength for tomorrow and not risk everything in one day. (Miguel De Cervantes)
- One of the strongest reasons that lead men to art and science is the escape from everyday life with its painful rawness and the gloomy lack of hope, from the slavery of one's ever-changing desires. (Albert Einstein)
- We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. (Ivan Illich)
- Deep in his heart, he waited for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, he turned a desperate gaze to the solitude of his life, in the hope of seeing a white sail in the distant mists on the horizon ... But nothing happened; God wanted it! The future was a dark corridor and the door at the end was barred. (Gustave Flaubert)
- Those who do not hope for another life have died even in this one. (Goethe)
- I used to say: "I really hope things will change". Then I learned that the only way for things to change for me is when I change them. (Jim Rohn)
- When everything is lost, everything is possible. (Robert Inman)
- The most important things to be happy in this life are having something to do, something to love and something to hope for. (Joseph Addison)
- Not knowing when dawn will come, I keep every door open. (Emily Dickinson)
- Optimism is the faith that leads to achievements. Nothing can be done without hope or trust. (Helen Adams Keller)
- Whenever a man defends an ideal, acts to improve the fate of others, or fight against injustice, he transmits a small wave of hope. (Bobby Kennedy)
- Hopes are nothing but the dreams of those who are awake. (Pindar)
- There are two lasting things that we can leave to our children: roots and wings. (William Hodding Carter II)
- The most terrible feeling is the feeling of having lost hope. (Federico Garcia Lorca)
- Just as in algebra two false statements give a true one, so I hope that the product of my failures will end with a success. (Vincent Van Gogh)
