“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.”
Hope is not naive — it is a strategy. These quotes explore optimism in the face of difficulty, the refusal to give up, and the quiet stubbornness of believing that tomorrow might be better than today, even when the evidence is thin.
“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.”
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.”
“Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.”
“People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.”
“A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.”
“Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.”
“They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.”
“I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.”
“It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.”
“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.”
“I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet... to live better in five years than we do today.”
“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.”
“The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.”
“I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.”
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.”
“I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.”