"He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful."

"He who has never hoped can never despair"

"I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better."

"‎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."

"The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth"

"I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me."

"I can't set my hopes too high, 'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye."

"We give anonymously because the sackfuls of thank-you letters break our hearts with their clumsy handwriting and hopeless phonetic spelling."

"I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me."

"Whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like."

"We hope to serve over 100 dinners tonight and we would really like to thank the local businesses that donated the silent auction items."

"This was our second crab feed and we hope to make it an annual event. The funds raised by the music boosters go for new equipment, trips and scholarships."

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."

"I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision."

"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable."

"The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear"

"...I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.— Let each man hope & believe what he can.—"

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."

"What we ever hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence."

"We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it."

"It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you."

"I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again."

"The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farm workers have had to walk for many years. It is a gate of hope through which they expect to find the sunlight of a better life for themselves and their families."

"I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers and mothers would take money out of their meager food budgets just because they believed that farm workers could and must build their own union. I remember thinking then that with spirit like that... we had to win. No force on earth could stop us."