quotations about hope
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
VACLAV HAVEL
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Disturbing the Peace
Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can throw us off; hope tempers fear so we can recognize dangers and then bypass or endure them.
JEROME GROOPMAN
The Anatomy of Hope
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, Nov. 13, 1712
As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.
JÜRGEN MOLTMANN
Theology of Hope
We have often to be thankful for hopes frustrated.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The most absurd and the most rash hopes have sometimes been the cause of extraordinary success.
LUC DE CLAPIERS
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
High Tide in Tucson
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us ... It lends promise to the future and purpose to the past. It turns discouragement to determination.
SAMUEL SMILES
Self-Help
The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with others. We pursue particular hopes, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, in the company of those we love. And as we develop habits of hope and the hopefulness which helps us weather our trials, we reach out to others, inspiring them, sharing our own hopes with them, and contributing our abilities as best we can to foster the growth of agency.
PATRICK SHADE
Habits of Hope
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
He Can Who Thinks He Can
Fraudulent hope is one of the greatest malefactors, even enervators, of the human race, concretely genuine hope its most dedicated benefactor.
ERNST BLOCH
The Principle of Hope
Hope just means another world might be possible, not promised, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.
REBECCA SOLNIT
Hope in the Dark
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
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Hope and milk sour by standing.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought