quotations about hope
Hope is, indeed, a deceitful enchantress; but she sheds a sweet radiance on the stream of life, and never exerts her magic except to our advantage. We seldom attain what she beckons us to pursue; but her deceptions resemble those which the dying husbandman in the fable practiced upon his sons, who, by telling them of a hidden mass of wealth, which he had buried in a secret place in his vineyard, led them so sedulously to delve the ground, and turn up the earth about the roots of the vines, that they found, in deed, a treasure, though not in gold, in wine.
WILLIAM MATHEWS
Hints on Success in Life
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.
LIN YUTANG
The Wisdom of China
Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO
"Maternal Dream"
I plant a seed of Hope, and ere the tread
Of nimble-footed Day has run the hours,
The seed has grown a tree that woos the skies,
Its verdant branches starred with golden flowers.
LOUISE AYRES GARNETT
"The Tree of Hope"
All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more,
Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes,
While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"Immortality"
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
JOHN GREEN
Looking for Alaska
Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.
LEMONY SNICKET
The Beatrice Letters
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
None are completely wretched but those who are without hope.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
Hope hath a large mouth.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
One day of good fortune is better than ten of hope.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Hope, whose whisper would have given
Balm to all my frenzied pain,
Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven,
Went, and ne'er returned again!
EMILY BRONTE
Hope
Hope is not a strategy.
RICK PAGE
Hope Is Not a Strategy
In hopelessness there is always hope.
DAN SIMMONS
Hyperion
Do not invest your whole life in one hope.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1754
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
We watch our hopes, far flickering in the night,
Once radiant torches, lighted in our youth,
To guide, through years, to some broad morn of truth;
But these go out and leave us with no light.
HENRY ABBEY
"While the Days Go By"
Those who live for hope alone find that the immediate future always slips from their grasp.
SENECA
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Work Without Hope