The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
George Washington Burnap
He who has never hoped can never despair.
George Bernard Shaw
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them.
Louisa May Alcott
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Pearl S. Buck
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.
Thomas Jefferson
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
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
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickenson
Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller
He, who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything.
Arabian Proverb
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
Anne Lamott