Hope Quotes

The most hopeful people in the world are the young and the drunk. The first because they have little experience of failure, and the second because they have succeeded in drowning theirs.

If a person doesn’t have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all. (Remarks to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Institute, Washington, D.C., May 22, 2001)

Hope is not a way out. It is a way through.

Hope is a waking dream.

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool.

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it […]

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.