Hope Quotes

The social objective… is to do what any honest government of any country would do: to try to increase the security and the happiness of a larger number of people in all occupations of life and in all parts of the country; to give them more of the good things of life, to give them […]

Lovers, poets, religious madmen, and anglers seem to me to have this in common – they live for impassioned anticipation of an uncertain thing.

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

I rejoice in the hope of that glory to be revealed, for it is no uncertain glory that we look for. Our hope is not hung upon such an untwisted thread as, “I imagine so,” or “It is likely,” but the cable, the strong tow of our fastened anchor, is the oath and promise of […]

Hope is the thing that ends with lilies on it.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.

To hope is to enjoy.

One does not expect in this world; one hopes and pays carfares.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company. (Marquis of Halifax)