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

19.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

20.

Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.

Johnson, John

21.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

22.

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

Ovid

23.

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

Melville, Herman

24.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Rohn, Jim

25.

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

26.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

27.

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

Cohen, Leonard

28.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

29.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Angelou, Maya

30.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

George W. Bush

31.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

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

Proverb, Arabian

33.

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

34.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hazlitt, William

35.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

36.

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

37.

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

38.

To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

40.

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

Ouida

41.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

42.

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

Borland, Hal

43.

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

Proverb, French

44.

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

Revson, Charles

45.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

46.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

William Shakespeare

47.

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.

48.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Epictetus

49.

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

50.

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