Quotes about hope

Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?.

It’s hard to feel completely hopeless during that special moment when you first catch sight of dawn.

Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.

In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful "break" was apt to lurk just around the corner.

[Romeo ... transfers his affections from Rosalind to Juliet] 'A lover, my dear Lady Betty,' said Flora, 'may, I conceive, persevere in his suit, under very discouraging circumstances. Affection can (now and then) withstand very severe storms of rigour, but not a long polar frost of downright indifference. Don't, even with your attractions, try the experiment upon any lover whose faith you value. Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope, but not altogether without it.'

He didn't so much as have hopes, for hope distracts, and he had a great deal to see to.

No one can go back, but everyone can go forward. And tomorrow, when the sun rises, all you have to say to yourselves is: I am going to think of this day as the first day of my life.

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

[T]he food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.