Quotes on Hope

Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breaths away.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.

It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.