I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Benjamin Disraeli

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

Thomas Jefferson

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You’re never as good as you’d like to be. So there’s always something to hope for.

Washington Irving

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Abraham Lincoln

God’s little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.

Emily Dickinson

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Quintilian

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

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Dante Alighieri

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Walter Benjamin

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

Nicolaus Copernicus

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Kurt Cobain

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

A dog's unwavering optimism is a beacon of hope in a world that sometimes feels uncertain.

God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.

William Shakespeare

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Samuel Johnson