We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.     Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Mark Twain

Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Aristotle

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill Cosby

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
George Chakiris

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Elbert Hubbard

While there’s life, there’s hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo

Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put my hope in Him.
Michelangelo

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles Kettering

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
Norman Cousins

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
Thomas Carlyle

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas Carlyle

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
George Washington Carver

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Elie Wiesel

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
Robert E. Lee

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin Coolidge

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
Francois Rabelais

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
Tertullian

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Hoe is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Pliny the Elder

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
Seamus Heaney