Quotes about hope

Hope springs eternal in the human breast

All human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—‘Wait and hope.’

All hope abandon ye who enter here.

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive

We promise according to our hopes; we perform according to our fears.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

As a coal is revived by incense, so prayer revives the hopes of the heart.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.

HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one.

LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

PRESENT, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal’s baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.

VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler’s hope.

Wall STREET, n. A symbol of sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven. Even the great and good Andrew Carnegie has made his profession of faith in the matter.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

However deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

What makes us like new studies is not so much the weariness we have of the old or the wish for change as the desire to be admired by those who know more than ourselves, and the hope of advantage over those who know less.

When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.

Ill-favour and hatred limit the spectator to the surface, even when keen perception is added unto them; but when keen perception unites with good-will and love, it gets at the heart of man and the world; nay, it may hope to reach the highest goal of all.

Faith, Love, and Hope once felt, in a quiet sociable hour, a plastic impulse in their nature; they worked together and created a lovely image, a Pandora in the higher sense, Patience.