You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
Fran Lebowitz

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
Mignon McLaughlin

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
Cat Stevens

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
Cat Stevens

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Miguel De Cervantes

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
Herman Melville

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Herman Melville

I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.
Jerry Lewis

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
Seamus Heaney

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
Magic Johnson

When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!
Calvin Klein

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
Henri Frederic Amiel