Quotes and Sayings on Hope

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Robert Ingersoll

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them.
Louisa May Alcott

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
Erik H. Erikson

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson

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

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickenson

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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.
Charles Sawyer

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucious

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
William James

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Richard David Bach

Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Aristotle

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles