Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

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

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Great hopes make great men.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

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

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.

Hope is the universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope.

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

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

A man begins to die when he ceases to expect anything from tomorrow.

Hope is the poor man's bread.

Hope 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 a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.

He that lives in hope danceth without music.

Hope is the physician of each misery.

Hope itself is 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.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.