Quotes on hope

“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.

“Hope is a waking dream. “
-Aristotle

“A leader is a dealer in hope. “
-Napoleon Bonaparte

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.”
-Albert Einstein

“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.

“Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.”
-Anonymous

“Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.”
-English Proverb

“Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.”
- Anonymous

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
- Winston Churchill

“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

“He who has never hoped can never despair.”
-George Bernard Shaw

“In the dark dreary nights, when the storm is at its most fierce, the lighthouse burns bright so the sailors can find their way home again. In life the same light burns. This light is fueled with love, faith, and hope. And through life’s most fierce storms these three burn their brightest so we also can find our way home again.”
- Unknown

“We live by admiration, hope and love.”
- William Wordsworth

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
- Helen Keller

“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.”
- Unknown

“Don't lose hope. When it gets darkest the stars come out.”
- Unknown

“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”
- Pope John XXIII

“Hope is the mother of fools.”
- Polish proverb

"Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead, or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, work for it, and fight for it."
- Barack Obama

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.”
- William Shakespeare

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
- Winston Churchill

“Hope springs eternal within the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.”
- Alexander Pope

“Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.”
-Samuel Johnson

“Hope dies last.”
-Spanish proverb

“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“One who has health has hope, and one who has hope has everything.”
- Arabic proverb

“There is no worse death than the end of hope.”
-Pelagius

“You cannot live on hope alone. But without hope, life is not worth living.”
-Harvey Milk

“Hope begins in the dark; the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”
-Anne Lamott


“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”
-The Shawshank Redemption

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.”
-Vaclav Havel

“Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.”
-Charles Caleb Colton

“Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more of desire than judgment.”
-William Penn

“Hope is the confidence or belief pertaining to ones ability to predict outcome/s. When the foundations of that confidence or belief are shaken hope slowly melts away.”
-Shrikant

“The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt

“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
-Barbara Kingsolver

“True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.”
-Walter Anderson

“If you don't have hope, then you don’t have anything. If you don't have anything, then hope you will get something.”
-Jordan Kai Simmons

“Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.”
-Norman Vincent Peale

“He who does not hope to win has already lost.“
-Jose Joaquin Olmedo

“Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.”
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.”
-Orison Marden

“Hope is passion for what is possible.”
-Soren Kierkegaard

“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.”
-Robert Ingersoll

“The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.”
-Norman Cousins

“Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.”
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy


“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
-Epicurus

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
-Dale Carnegie

“Hope is medicine for a soul that's sick and tired.”
-Eric Swensson

“It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
-Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.”
-Augustine of Hippo

“What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.”
-Emil Brunner

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast.”
-Alexander Pope

“Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.”
-Abraham Cowley

“Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.”
-Samuel Smiles

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
-Dale Carnegie

“The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
-Allan K. Chalmers

Quotes on friends and friendship

"We are advertised by our loving friends."
-William Shakespeare

"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
- Socrates

"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair."
- Samuel Johnson

"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."

"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them."
- Publilius Syrus, Maxims

"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
-Joseph Addison

“The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you’ve had.”
-Anonymous

“When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.”
- Japanese Proverb

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
- George Washington

“Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.”
-Anonymous

"Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends."
- Czech Proverb

"Have no friends not equal to yourself."
- Confucius

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
- Aristotle

"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
- Socrates

“There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.”
-Anonymous

“If you’re alone, I’ll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I’ll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I’ll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I’ll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I’ll just be me.”
-Anonymous

“A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one.”
-Anonymous

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
-Oprah Winfrey

“Life without a friend is death without a witness.”
-Spanish Proverb

“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.”
-Sicilian Proverb

“A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.”
-Anonymous

“The road to a friend’s house is never long.”
-Danish proverb

“To attract good fortune spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.”
-Chinese proverb

“Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.”
-Anonymous

“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
-Abraham Lincoln

“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
-Goethe

“It is a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“A true friend is one soul divided into two people.”
-Aristotle

“Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.”
-Anonymous

“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt

“Friendship is like pee in your pants. Everyone can see it's there, but only you can feel the true warmth.”
-Anonymous

“There are three friends in this world -- courage, sense, and insight.”
-African proverb

“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.”
-Homer

“Friends are family you choose for yourself.”
-Anonymous

“A good friend will bail you out of jail and lecture you about how you messed up. A great friend will be sitting right next to you laughing about it saying "damn, we really screwed up!"”
-Anonymous