One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

Pound, Ezra

20.

He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

22.

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

Kingsley, Charles

23.

Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May -- how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

Gissing, George Robert

24.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

25.

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

26.

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Barack Obama

27.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Epicurus

31.

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.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

32.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

33.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

34.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Melville, Herman

35.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn.

Borland, Hal

36.

He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.

Proverb, French

37.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

38.

Never lose hope.

39.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

40.

Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.

Sawyer, Charles

41.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

42.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

43.

There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out.

Becker, May L.

44.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.