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

22.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

23.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

24.

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'.

Alexandre Dumas

25.

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.

Kingsolver, Barbara

26.

The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.

Cowper, William

27.

The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.

Goldsmith, Oliver

28.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

29.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Cohen, Leonard

30.

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

31.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

32.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

33.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Arnold, Matthew

34.

Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

Sade, Marquis De

35.

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

Melville, Herman

36.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

37.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Jackson, Jesse

38.

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

Borland, Hal

39.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

40.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

42.

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

Ovid

43.

Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life.

44.

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

Miller, Henry

45.

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

Proverb, French

46.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Schuller, Robert H.

47.

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

48.

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

Nash, Ogden

49.

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

50.

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.