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Hope is the thing with feathers
that perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all..
-- Emily Dickinson

"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; these are its sign, and note and character."
-- Robert Browning (1812–1889), English poet and playwright.

The most absurd and the most rash hopes have sometimes been the cause of extraordinary success.
-- Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-1747) French author, moralist and essay writer

"Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine. Hope is serene, not giddy, eager without being naive, and pleasantly steady without being smug. Hope is realistic anticipation which takes the form of a determination -- not only to survive adversity but, moreover, to 'endure ... well' to the end."-- Neal A. Maxwell, Ensign, Nov. 1998

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

"True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome."
-- Walter Anderson

"Were someone to ask, 'What is your hope?' and you responded with a shrug, it's not that you are without hope. But you may have lost touch with the essence of your own aliveness. You may have forgotten how to dream. You may feel hopeless. So ask yourself this, then, 'If nothing were impossible, if my history and bank account didn't matter, what would I hope? What is my dream?' Allow your inner longings to rise to the surface.
-- Mary Manin Morrissey

"What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life."
-- Emil Brunner

"When the world says, 'Give up,' Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
-- Author Unknown

"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."
-- Robert H. Schuller (Author and Minister)

"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

"There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown helpless about them."
-- Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)

"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 (1954-) American author

"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."
-- Vaclav Havel, writer and President of the Czech Republic

"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable."
-- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer and literary critic.

"Hope is patience with the lamp lit."
-- Tertullian