Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Francis Bacon
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way. Lord Halifax (George Savile)
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. Thornton Wilder
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. Robert G Ingersoll
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. Norman Cousins
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. Baruch Spinoza
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. Norman Cousins
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. Samuel Smiles
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. Herman Melville
Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn’t permanent. Jean Kerr
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. Jonas Salk
Hope is a very thin diet. Thomas Shadwell
I think it’s realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: ‘I despair. The world’s no good.’ That’s a perverse idealist. It’s practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That’s very realistic. Studs Terkel
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. Vaclav Havel