See a gallery of 12 quotes on hope.

  • The Chinese have a saying: If you keep a green bough in your heart surely the singing bird will come.
    — Chinese saying quoted in The Web in the Seaby Alice O. Howell
  • Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never eat them. We must live by the love of what we will never see.... Such disciplined love is what has given prophets, revolutionaries, and saints the courage to die for the future they envisaged. They make their own bodies the seed of their highest hope.
    — Rubem Alves quoted in There Is A Season by Joan Chittister
  • A part of our obligation to our own being and to our descendants is to study life and our conditions, searching always for the authentic underpinnings of hope.
    — Wendell Berry quoted in Hope, Human and Wild by Bill McKibben
  • Prayer is hope's breathing. When we stop praying, we stop hoping.
    — Dom Pedro Casaldaliga quoted in Lent by Megan McKenna
  • There are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness.
    — Jean Giono quoted in The Music of Time by John S. Dunne
  • No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.
    — Dorothy Day quoted in In a High Spiritual Season by Joan Chittister
  • He that lives in hope dances without music.
    — George Herbert quoted in Joy by Beverly Elaine Eanes
  • Hope is the foundation for creativity, inspiration, joy and all those emotions which allow us to transcend ourselves.
    — Verena Kast in Joy, Inspiration and Hope
  • We have only begun
    to imagine the fullness of life.
    How could we tire of hope?
    So much is in the bud.
    — Denise Levertov in Candles in Babylon
  • The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.
    — Evelyn Underhill quoted in God Hunger by John Kirvan
  • The gift of hope makes every person, as well as the whole family of humanity, very valuable; the vision of future rightness sends back a stamp of rightness into the present. It also makes life a little more playful. What we cannot do in a million calendar squares, God will do in his own time.
    — Lewis B. Smedes in How Can It Be All Right When Everything Is All Wrong?
  • The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.
    — Evelyn Underhill quoted in God Hunger by John Kirvan

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