Famous Quotes about Hope (102 Quotations)

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Hope is a good thing but not if you depend on it solely.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Hope is a waking dream.

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

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.

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth…

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.