Sayings about Hope
It is never winter in the land of hope. ~ Russian Proverb
No matter how long the night is, the morning is sure to come. ~ African Proverb
If it were not for hope, the heart would break. ~ Greek Proverb
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things will be yours. ~ Swedish Proverb
The person who lives by hope will die by despair. ~ Italian Proverb
Hope is the last thing ever lost. ~ Italian Proverb
The farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate. ~ Chinese Proverb
A good well-lived today makes every yesterday a dream of a good future, and every morning is a vision of hope. ~ Sanskrit Proverb
The situation is hopeless, but not serious. ~ Austrian Proverbs
Hope for miracles, but don’t rely on one. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Hope for a miracle, but don’t rely on it. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Hope is the physician of each misery. ~ Irish Proverb
It’s good to hope, it’s the waiting that spoils it. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Quit not certainty for hope. ~ Traditional Proverb
What one hopes for is always better than what one has. ~ Ethiopian Proverb
Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance. ~ French Proverb
He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope. ~ Italian Proverb
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. ~ English Proverb
There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave. ~ Irish Proverbs
Nothing If it were not for hope, the heart would break. ~ Greek Proverbs
Hope is the dream of a soul awake. ~ French Proverb
The horses of hope gallop, but the asses of experience go slowly. ~ Russian Proverb
He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything. ~ Arabian Proverb
Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy. ~ Italian Proverbs
Were it not for hope the heart would break. ~ Scottish Proverbs
Only death itself can end our hope. ~ Arabian Proverb
Happiness He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
He who lives on hope, dies of starvation. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Hope does not kill; I shall live in hope of getting what I seek another day. ~ South African Proverb
While there’s life there’s hope. ~ Traditional Proverb
Better a good hope than a bad possession. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Hope is an egg, of which one man gets the yolk, another the white, and a third the shell. ~ Danish Proverbs
Hopeless He who is hopeless is capable of everything. ~ French Proverb
Hope is a great breakfast but a poor dinner. ~ Czech Proverb
All temptations are found in either hope or fear. ~ English Proverbs
He who is hopeless is capable of everything. ~ French Proverb
Quotations about Hope
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There’s too much work to do. ~ Dorothy Day
He who has never hoped can never despair. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The miserable have no other medicine but only hope. ~ William Shakespeare
In all things it is better to hope than to despair. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. ~ Maya Angelou
Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement. ~ Author Unknown
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ~ Thomas Hardy
Hope costs nothing. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
— Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. ~ Bible
The wings of hope carry us, soaring high above the driving winds of life. ~ Ana Jacob
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life. ~ Author Unknown
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.~ Dr. Robert Anthony
Hope is the last lingering light of the human heart. It shines when every other is put out. ~ James H. Aughey
You ask what hope is. He (Aristotle) says it is a waking dream. ~ Laertius Diogenes
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul — and sings the tunes without the words — and never stops at all. ~ Emily Dickinson
Hope is grief’s best music. ~ Author Unknown
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. ~ Victor Hugo
Hope is the spur of life. ~ Edward Counsel
We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. ~ Jacques Cousteau
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ~ Samuel Johnson
Hope is a waking dream. ~ Aristotle
He that loses hope may part with anything. ~ William Congreve
God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Our hopes are but memories reversed. ~ Author Unknown
Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, is hope. ~ John Armstrong
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. ~ Vincent McNabb
Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. ~ John Ruskin
Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future. ~ Emil Brunner
Hope is a willing slave; despair is free. ~ Charles Gates Dawes
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.~ Hal Lindsey
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. ~ Baruch Spinoza
When our hopes break, let our patience hold. ~ Thomas Fuller
The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope. ~ Daniel Berrigan
Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope. ~Author Unknown
None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. ~ William Hazlitt
Hope is the best part of our riches. ~ John Christian Bovee
Those who live for hope alone find that the immediate future always slips from their grasp. ~ Seneca
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ~ George Iles
For the living there is hope, for the dead there is none. ~ Theocritus
With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured. ~ Abraham Lincoln
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them. ~ Clare Boothe Luce
When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.” ~Author Unknown
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us can see a possibility of hope. ~ Maya Angelou
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. ~ Sir Walter Scott
Hope is the ruddy morning of joy. ~ Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
He that lives upon hopes will die fasting. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Hope awakens courage. ~ Karl von Knebel
Where no hope is left, is left no fear. ~ John Milton
No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part. ~ Samuel Johnson
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. ~ Ben Jonson
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. ~ Euripides
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Hope is like the wing of an angel, soaring up to heaven, and bearing our prayers to the throne of God. ~ Jeremy Taylor
Now the God of hope fills you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope. ~ Bible
The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage. ~ Samuel Johnson
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. ~ Marian Zimmer Bradley
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. ~ Robert H. Schuller
Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work. ~ Charles Sawyer
Hope ever urges on, and tells us to-morrow will be better. ~ Albius Tibullus
There’s a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again! ~ Robert Gilfillan
When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor. ~ Samuel Johnson
False hopes are more dangerous than fears. ~ J. Tolkien
Hope is the parent of faith. ~ Cyrus A. Bartol
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey. ~ Ouida
Hope is the mother of faith. ~ Walter Savage Landor
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery. ~ Bertrand Russell
To live without hope is to cease to live. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. ~ John Lyly
Hope is but the dream of those who wake. ~ Matthew Prior
while there is life there is hope–and while there is hope there is life. ~ e. e. Holmes
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ~ Pearl S. Buck
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. ~ Titus Maccius Plautus
To the sick, while there is life there is hope. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
Hope is the poor man’s bread. ~ Gary Herbert
When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
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
Hope Is Delicate Suffering. ~ Amiri Baraka
Hope is patience with the lamp lit. ~ Quintus Tertullianus
The past is over… forget it. The future holds hope… reach for it. ~ Charles Swindoll
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you’re slamming the door in the face of God. ~ Charles L. Allen
However deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life. ~ Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
The absence of hope can rot a society from within. ~ Barack Obama
For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams. ~ Saint Basil
Hope never abandons you; you abandon it. ~ George Weinberg
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~ Joseph Addison
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. ~ Christopher Reeve
The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope. ~ Gerald Massey
The word which god has written on the brow of every man is hope. ~ Victor Hugo
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.~ Chester W. Nimitz