Hope Quotes

All industry must be excited by hope.

He that lives upon Hope, dies fasting.

“Pray, who are you, beautiful creature?” inquired Pandora. “I am to be called Hope!” answered the sunshiny figure. “And because I am such a cheery little body, I was packed into the box, to make amends to the human race for that swarm of ugly Troubles, which was destined to be let loose among them. […]

Hope is always liberal, and they that trust her promises make little scruple of revelling today on the profits of the morrow.

It’s not the despair, Laura. I can stand the despair… it’s the hope.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that.

We naturally indulge those ideas that please us. Hope will predominate in every mind, till it has been suppressed by frequent disappointments.

It is an all-too-human frailty to suppose that a favorable wind will blow forever.

Hope costs nothing.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words – wait and hope.