Hope Quotes
Hope is a small page with almost no controversy. At the time of writing, no quote on it is flagged as misattributed or disputed; three are marked attributed. The authors are mostly poets (Milton, Shelley, Byron, Samuel Johnson, T. S. Eliot), and the best-sourced entries are the older ones.
Coleridge, in “Work without Hope” (1825): “Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve, / And Hope without an object cannot live.” Bertrand Russell, in Political Ideals (1917), thought that hope for the world was to be found only in the deeds of love. Jane Goodall appears three times, which makes her a rare modern name among the poets.
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
Defer not the date of repentance for sins and confession in the hope of grace or longevity of life.
If we can see our difficulties, there is a way of resolving them, or the hope of a way.
The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
I hadn’t suspected that a tiny glimmer of hope for the future could transform someone so utterly.
Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) — you will have hope and be made hopeful.
There is but one hope, and this hope is embodied in the national groups which desire our recovery.
Such hopes now seemed ludicrous in their naivety, like trying to stop a bulldozer with a feather.