Quotes Concerning Hope
’Tis always morning somewhere.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is a mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength. Like all the Christian virtues, it is as unreasonable as it is indispensable.
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936)
Behind the cloud the starlight lurks,
Through showers the sunbeams fall;
For God, who loveth all his works
Has left his hope with all!
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
Dark things reach out toward brightness.
Eugenio Montale (1896–1981)
Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear; rather look to them with full hope that, as they arise, God, whose you are, will deliver you out of them. He is your Keeper. He has kept you hitherto. Hold fast to his dear hand, and he will lead you safely through all things; and, when you cannot stand, he will bear you in his arms. Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow. Our Father will either shield you from suffering, or he will give you strength to bear it.
Saint Francis of Sales (1567–1622)
God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
He that lives in hope dances without a fiddle.
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.
Arabian Proverb
Hope for the best; get ready for the worst; then take what God chooses to send.
Hope has a thick skin and will endure many a blow; it will put on patience as a vestment, it will wade through a sea of blood, it will endure all things if it be of the right kind, for the joy that is set before it. Hence patience is called “patience of hope,” because it is hope that makes the soul exercise patience and long-suffering under the cross, until the time comes to enjoy the crown.
John Bunyan (1628–1688)
Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar;
Wait the great teacher death, and God adore.
What future bliss he gives not thee to know,
But gives that hope to be thy blessing now,
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blessed.
Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
Hope in the Lord, but exert yourself.
Russian Proverb
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
Hope is a more gentle name for fear.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838)
Hope is a vigorous principle; it sets the head and heart to work and animates a man to do his utmost.
Jeremy Collier (1650–1726)
Hope is an adventure, a going forward—a confident search for a rewarding life.
Karl Augustus Menninger (1893–1990)
Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)
Hope is faith holding out its hands in the dark.
George Iles
Hope is grief’s best music.
Henry George Bohn (1796–1884)
Hope is like the clouds: some pass by, others bring rain.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Samuel Smiles (1812–1904)
Hope is the last thing that dies in man, and although it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey’s end.
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
Karl Augustus Menninger (1893–1990)
Hope is the physician of every misery.
Irish Proverb
Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898– )
Hope looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst in them. Hope opens doors where despair closes them. Hope discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot be done. Hope draws its power from a deep trust in God and the basic goodness of mankind. Hope “lights a candle” instead of “cursing the darkness.” Hope regards problems, small or large, as opportunities. Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.
Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936)
Hope not only bears up the mind under sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.
Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
Hope thinks nothing difficult; despair tells us that difficulty is unsurmountable.
Isaac Watts (1674–1748)
Hope! Of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure!
Thou captive’s freedom, and thou sick man’s health,
Thou lover’s victory, and thou beggar’s wealth!
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)
Hope, the balm and lifeblood of the soul.
John Armstrong (1709–1779)
How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
If it were not for hope the heart would break.
English Proverb
In the kingdom of hope there is no winter.
Russian Proverb
In the presence of hope, faith is born.
Robert Harold Schuller (1926– )
Life with Christ is an endless hope, without him a hopeless end.
Make us thy mountaineers
We would not linger on the lower slope,
Fill us afresh with hope,
O God of hope.
Amy Carmichael (1867–1951)
O hope! Dazzling, radiant hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.
Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944)
Our hope lies, not in the man we put on the moon, but in the Man we put on the cross.
Don Basham
5 Sad soul, take comfort nor forget
The sunrise never failed us yet.
Celia Thaxter (1835–1894)
The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
Orison Swett Marden
The march of providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.
Robert Edward Lee (1807–1870)
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is our hope today. It is our assurance that we have a living Savior to help us live as we should now, and that when, in the end, we set forth on that last great journey, we shall not travel an uncharted course, but rather we shall go on a planned voyage—life to death to eternal living.
Raymond MacKendree
The word hope I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
John Calvin (1509–1564)
The word which God has written on the brow of every man is hope.
Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
There is more hope for a self-convicted sinner than there is for a self-conceited saint.
We hope vaguely but dread precisely.
Paul Valery (1871–1945)
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
