Hope Quotes

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

Matthew Prior

Hope is important because
it can make the present moment
less difficult to bear.
If we believe
that tomorrow will be better,
We can bear a hardship today.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Hope of Deliverance.
Hope of Deliverance.
Hope of Deliverance,
From the Darkness that surrounds us.

Paul McCartney

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.

George Iles

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

Orison Swett Marden

Medicine's ability to cure or control a patient's disease is but one avenue of hope.

The search for hope in other dimensions may include living with the disease rather than curing it, exploring experimental therapy that has not yet been shown to be efficacious, being free of pain or symptoms, achieving closure with family members, exploring spiritual or religious issues, or exploring personal short-term goals.

Source: Quill TE, Arnold RM, Platt F. "I Wish Things Were Different": Expressing Wishes in Response to Loss, Futility, and Unrealistic Hopes. Ann Intern Med, Oct 2001; 135: 551 - 555

Even in the darkest times, memories of past winters melting into spring can comfort, sustain us and bring hope.

Kirsti A. Dyer MD, MS

Once you choose hope, anything is possible.

Christopher Reeve

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

Emily Dickinson

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 definitely not the same thing as optimism.
It is not the conviction that something will turn out well,
but the certainty that something makes sense,
regardless of how it turns out.

Václav Havel