Fabulous Quotes about HOPE!

Quotes about Hope: the Future

- Hope is man's preparation for the unknown.
Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007) Indian-born U.S.-based poet, writer, musician, artist, spiritual teacher

- Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, educator, pacifist

- No matter what kind of difficult situation one may find oneself in, some opening, some opportunity to fight one's way out, can always be found. What's most important is to hold fast to hope, to face the future with courage.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, educator, pacifist

Short Quotes about Hope

- Hope is man's inner effort.
Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007) Indian-born U.S.-based poet, writer, musician, artist, spiritual teacher

- I always entertain great hopes.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) U.S. poet

- Hope is life's greatest treasure.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, educator, pacifist

- Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
Robert Burns (1759-1796) national poet of Scotland, lyricist

- To hope is to send darkest night into exile.
Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007) Indian-born U.S.-based poet, writer, musician, artist, spiritual teacher

- Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet

- To hope is to see with the eye of the heart.
Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007) Indian-born U.S.-based poet, writer, musician, artist, spiritual teacher

- In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author

Longer Quotes about Hope

- He who has health has hope and he who has hope has everything.
Arabian Proverb

- Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Source unknown

- The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) Russian-born U.S. anarchist, author

- 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 (1830-1886) U.S. poet

- Hope and faith are two intimate brothers; they always go together. Hope nourishes faith and faith treasures hope.
Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007) Indian-born U.S.-based poet, writer, musician, artist, spiritual teacher

- The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure.
Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007) Indian-born U.S.-based poet, writer, musician, artist, spiritual teacher

- But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.
Edgar Guest (1881-1959) English-born U.S. poet, radio host

- 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 (1895-1976) Chinese writer, inventor

- You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) 28th U.S. President

Quotes about Hope: Life

- Hopes, dreams, faith and a sense of mission enable us to open up our lives.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, educator, pacifist

- I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living.
Harvey Milk (1930-1978) U.S. politician, the first openly gay man elected to public office in California, gay civil-rights hero

- Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, educator, pacifist

Quotes about Hope: Losing Hope

- If one truly has lost hope, one would not be around to say so.
Eric Bentley (born 1916) English-born U.S. critic, teacher, playwright

- We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) African-American peaceful Baptist revolutionary, civil rights leader

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- A life without hope is bleak and grey. If you have no hope, create some.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, educator, pacifist

- When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
Charles L. Allen (1913-2005) U.S. Methodist minister, columnist, author

- There are no hopeless situations, there are only men who have grown helpless about them.
Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) U.S. playwright, editor, journalist, social activist, politician, ambassador, socialite

- Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
Barbara Kingsolver (born 1955) U.S. writer

- To lose hope or give up one's goals because of the setbacks of the moment is to diminish one's own life potential.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, educator, pacifist

- If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) African-American peaceful Baptist revolutionary, civil rights leader

Quotes about Hope: Transformation

- Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, educator, pacifist

- To hope is to feel the presence of the inner sun. The inner sun is; the outer sun becomes.
Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007) Indian-born U.S.-based poet, writer, musician, artist, spiritual teacher

- Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, educator, pacifist

Long Quote about Hope: Transformation

- The power of growth, of improvement, the power to overcome all stagnation and break through every obstacle and transform a barren wasteland into a verdant field—that unstoppable power of hope resides right within your own heart. It wells up from the rich earth of your innermost being when you face the future without doubt or fear: "I can do more. I can grow. I can become a bigger and better human being."
Daisaku Ikeda (born 1928) Japanese philosopher, Buddhist leader, author, poet, educator, pacifist

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