quotations about hope
In somewhat the same way as reasonable belief is to be distinguished from superstition, so is reasonable hope ("hope that maketh not ashamed") to be distinguished from that which is vain and illusory. It is also true that in somewhat the same way as the strength of the belief furnishes a very effective evidence for the reasonableness of the belief to the man who holds it, so does the assurance of hoping give much additional testimony to the reasonableness of the hope for the mind that entertains it. In both cases, a certain value, which is something more than purely "subjective," cannot easily be denied to this support of truth in a form that is primarily emotional. It is more reasonable to believe what one can honestly believe with a strong feeling of confidence in its "objective" truthfulness. It is more reasonable to hope what one can honestly hope with a large measure of firm assurance. Nor is this measure of emotional evidence to be esteemed as of value to those only who store it in their own bosoms. Beliefs and hopes that are kept ever warm and vital in the bosom of humanity, by being near to its heart and source of vital life-currents, are lawfully as well as actually most well nourished and most vigorous.
GEORGE TRUMBULL LADD
What May I hope?
Those who live for hope alone find that the immediate future always slips from their grasp.
SENECA
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
The greatest architect and the one most needed is Hope.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Thou beautiful unknown! Hope gilds thy couch
With bright enchanting hues, and gleaming crown,
As if man sees in thee a proper child,
And wraps thee lovingly, with tender care,
Watching thy young existence with delight,
And, with exceeding joy, and warm caress,
Offers thee early worship, praise, and pray'r.
C. B. LANGSTON
"The New Year's Wreath"
While there is life there is hope--and while there is hope there is life.
E. E. HOLMES
Joyful Through Hope
Hope joined us in the cradle, and will be with us at the last.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Hope", Short Essays
I still believe in a place called Hope, a place called America.
BILL CLINTON
speech at Democratic National Convention, August 29, 1996
Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.
ECKHARD TOLLE
The Power of Now
Hope is delicate suffering.
AMIRI BARAKA
Cold
Hope is fragile and needs to be tended and renewed.
PATRIC SHADE
Habits of Hope
Hope--it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.
THE ARCHITECT
The Matrix Reloaded
When you are well and truly screwed, either you just sit pissing yourself or you invent some reason to hope.
JAMES ALAN GARDNER
Ascending
The most absurd and the most rash hopes have sometimes been the cause of extraordinary success.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
PEARL S. BUCK
To My Daughters
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing, but we all do, and call it hope.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
Hope is the only method of recapturing hope.
HIROKAZU MIYAZAKI
The Method of Hope
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Letter, Jun. 8, 1762
Expectancy speeds progress. Therefore, live in a continual state of expectancy. No matter how much good you are experiencing today, expect greater good tomorrow. Expect to meet new friends. Expect to meet new and wonderful experiences. Try this magic of expectancy and you will soon discover a dramatic side to your work which gives full vent to constructive feeling.
ERNEST HOLMES
This Thing Called You
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
High Tide in Tucson
I have faint hopes: I have some it is true -- just enough to keep body and soul together.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg, May 12, 1811