Quotes about hope
152 quotes from 111 people
Che Guevara1928–1967Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Haile Selassie1892–1975Address to the United Nations (1963)
Thích Nhất Hạnh1926–2022The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation (1999), Page 52
Václav Havel1936–2011Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5: The Politics of HopeSo if you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up. There’s a way out.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018Reith Lecture 2: Black holes ain’t as black as they are painted (2015) · BBC Radio 4 audio file
William Hazlitt1778–1830Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld’s Maxims (1823), No. 34He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.
Heraclitus535–470 BCFragment 18, as quoted in The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments (1981) edited by Charles H. Kahn, p. 105
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894Valedictory address to medical graduates at Harvard University (10 March 1858), published in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. LVIII, No. 8 (25 March 1858), p. 158
Langston Hughes1901–1967Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951), “Harlem”Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 1, p. 9
Isaiah766–686 BCThe Book of Isaiah (c. 800–500 B.C.), 40:31 KJV
