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.
To Mankind
And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won, after all.
Hope is the possibility of always having something to achieve.
My mission, the mission of my term, is to do everything in order to rebuild hope.
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
“There’s still hope.”
But a small, private voice said: there’s hope, and there’s desperation.