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

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. – Robert H. Goddard

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. – Thomas Fuller

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth, – Abraham Lincoln

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. – Dante

Until death all is life. (Where there’s life there’s hope.) – Cervantes

Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after. – Dr. Robert Anthony

Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on. – Gloria Gaither

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. – Robert G. Ingersoll

For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams. – Saint Basil

Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Lord save us all from… a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.  ~Mark Twain

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. – Martin Luther

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. – Orison S. Marden

Entertain great hopes. – Robert Frost

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

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. – Bertrand Russell

To the sick, while there is life there is hope. – Marcus T. Cicero

Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness. – Alfred Nobel

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.  ~Pearl S. Buck

He who has never hoped can never despair. – George Bernard Shaw

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. – Dalai Lama

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough. – Richard M. DeVos

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. – Lord Byron

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. – Rita Mae Brown

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. – Erich Fromm

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it’s turn. – Hal Borland

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

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. – Stephen Ambrose