All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Dante Alighieri

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Ogden Nash

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
Ogden Nash

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
Ivan Illich

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
Ivan Illich

While there's life, there's hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
James Madison

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
James A. Baldwin

I hope to get out before they start football next year.
Bear Bryant

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
T. S. Eliot

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
T. S. Eliot

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Gertrude Stein

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Gertrude Stein

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

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily Dickinson

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
Colin Powell

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Schuller

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
Christina Rossetti

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.
Christina Rossetti