Definition of hope

"hope" in the noun sense

1. hope

a specific instance of feeling hopeful

"it revived their hope of winning the pennant"

2. hope

the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled

"in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope"

3. promise, hope

grounds for feeling hopeful about the future

"there is little or no promise that he will recover"

4. hope

someone (or something) on which expectations are centered

"he was their best hope for a victory"

5. Hope, Bob Hope, Leslie Townes Hope

United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003)

6. hope

one of the three Christian virtues

"hope" in the verb sense

1. hope, trust, desire

expect and wish

"I trust you will behave better from now on"

"I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise"

2. hope

be optimistic be full of hope have hopes

"I am still hoping that all will turn out well"

3. hope, go for

intend with some possibility of fulfilment

"I hope to have finished this work by tomorrow evening"

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Quotations for hope

In hope. [ Motto ]

Hope is a sarcasm. [ Alfred Mercier ]

To hope is to enjoy. [ Saint-Lambert ]

Yet hope is not broken. [ Motto ]

Thou sick man's health! [ Cowley ]

Hope is worth any money. [ Proverb ]

Hope is a lover's staff. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hope is the mother of faith. [ Landor ]

Hope is as cheap as despair. [ Proverb ]

Hope is the poor man's bread. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Hope is a working-man's dream. [ Pliny ]

Hope and fear are inseparable. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

I gaze upon the thousand stars
That fill the midnight sky;
And wish, so passionately wish,
A light like theirs on high.
I have such eagerness of hope
To benefit my kind;
I feel as if immortal power
Were given to my mind. [ Miss Landon ]

Hope is the last thing we lose. [ Italian Proverb ]

Never trade certainty for hope. [ Proverb ]

Rely not too much on frail hope. [ Seneca ]

The most wretched have yet hope. [ Tupper ]

Hope, alas! is our waking dream. [ Madame de Girardin ]

Hope is a loan made to happiness.

Hope is the dream of a man awake. [ French Proverb ]

Hope is the ruddy morning of joy. [ Richter ]

Who against hope believed in hope. [ Bible ]

While there is life there is hope. [ Proverb ]

Hope is the gardener of the heart. [ De Finod ]

The mighty hopes that make us men. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Yet all I've learnt from hours rife
With painful brooding here,
Is, that amid this mortal strife.
The lapse of every year
But takes away a hope from life.
And adds to death a fear. [ Hoffman ]

The sickening pang of hope deferred. [ Scott ]

That star on life's tremulous ocean. [ Moore ]

Happiest they of human race,
To whom God has granted grace
To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,
To lift the latch and force the way;
And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. [ Scott ]

Hope is a bait that covers any hook. [ Ben Jonson ]

All hope abandon, ye who enter here. [ Dante ]

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. [ Bible ]

No day is without its innocent hope. [ Ruskin ]

Who will not mercy unto others show,
How can he mercy ever hope to have? [ Edmund Spenser ]

Do the likeliest, and hope the best. [ Proverb ]

Folly ends where genuine hope begins. [ Cowper ]

Anticipation and Hope are born twins. [ Rousseau ]

We live by admiration, hope, and love. [ Wordsworth ]

An ill conscience can never hope well. [ Proverb ]

The food of hope is meditative action. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

True joy is only hope put out of fear. [ Lord Brooke ]

Twist ye, twine ye! even so,
Mingle shades of joy and woe,
Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife,
In the thread of human life. [ Scott ]

Where no hope is left, is left no fear. [ Milton ]

He that lives on hope will die fasting. [ Franklin ]

Hope well and have well, quoth Hickwell. [ Proverb ]

To love is to believe, to hope, to know;
'Tis an essay, a taste of heaven below! [ Edmund Waller ]

While a sick man has life, there is hope. [ Proverb ]

Hope springs eternal in the human breast. [ Pope ]

Love can hope where reason would despair. [ Lyttleton ]

God shall be my hope,
My stay, my guide and lantern to my feet. [ William Shakespeare ]

Sire of repentance, child of fond desire! [ Cowley ]

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing. [ Burns ]

They speak of hope to the fainting heart. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Hope is a willing slave; despair is free. [ Dawes ]

Whatever enlarges hope will exalt courage. [ Johnson ]

He that loses hope may part with anything. [ Congreve ]

What can innocence hope for,
When such as sit her judges are corrupted? [ Massinger ]

He that lives upon hopes will die fasting. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper. [ Proverb ]

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure. [ Shelley ]

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating. [ Balzac ]

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse,
Without all hope of day. [ Milton ]

Delusive hope still points to distant good. [ Euripides ]

There is no hope - the future will but turn
The old sand in the falling glass of time. [ R. H. Stoddard ]

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life. [ Miss L. E. Landon ]

Men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages:
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross. [ William Shakespeare ]

Farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear;
Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost;
Evil, be thou my good! [ Milton ]

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive. [ Montgomery ]

Hope's gentle gem, the sweet forget-me-not. [ Coleridge ]

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope. [ Italian Proverb ]

He that wants hope is the poorest man alive. [ Proverb ]

Every great passion is but a prolonged hope. [ Feucheres ]

He that lives in hope danceth without music. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A good hope is better than a bad possession. [ Proverb ]

Enjoy what you have; hope for what you lack. [ Levis ]

They speak of hope to the fainting heart,
With a voice of promise they come and part,
They sleep in dust through the wintry hours,
They break forth in glory - bring flowers,
bright flowers! [ Mrs. Hemans ]

When our hopes break, let our patience hold. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Looks that asked, yet dared not hope relief. [ Rogers ]

He that lives on hope has but a slender diet. [ Proverb ]

For hope is but the dream of those that wake. [ Prior ]

Dreadful is their doom, whom doubt has driven
To censure fate, and pious hope forego. [ Beattie ]

These eyes tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot.
Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot.
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear
Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year.
Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not
Against Heaven's hand or will, nor have a jot
Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward. [ Milton ]

He that lives in hope dances without a fiddle. [ Proverb ]

Not to have hope is the poorest of all things. [ Proverb ]

Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind;
His soul proud science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk or milky way;
Yet simple nature to his hope has given,
Behind the cloud-topt hills, a humbler heaven. [ Pope ]

The only hope of science is genuine induction. [ Bacon ]

O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope.
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings. [ Milton ]

When peace and mercy, vanished from the plain,
Sprung on the viewless winds to heaven again,
All, all forsook the friendless guilty mind;
But Hope, the charmer, lingered still behind. [ Thomas Campbell ]

I hope I may tie up my own sack when I please. [ Proverb ]

There was a laughing devil in his sneer,
That raised emotions both of rage and fear;
And where his frown of hatred darkly fell,
Hope withering fled, and mercy sighed farewell. [ Byron ]

It is hope alone that makes us willing to live. [ Proverb ]

Let those who hope for brighter shores no more,
Not mourn, but turning inland, bravely seek
What hidden wealth redeems the shapeless shore. [ Eugene Lee Hamilton ]

The rose is fairest when it is budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

What surety of the world, what hope, what stay.
When this was now a king, and now is clay! [ William Shakespeare ]

Love, hope, fear, faith — these make humanity;
These are its sign and note and character. [ Robert Browning ]

The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards. [ Thomas Guthrie ]

O nightingale, that on yon blooming spray
Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still,
Thou with fresh hope the lovers heart doth fill! [ Milton ]

For though from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar. [ Tennyson ]

In the greatest ill the good man hath hope left. [ Proverb ]

Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor. [ Johnson ]

But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought
Of freedom, in that hope itself possess
All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength,
The scorn of danger, and united hearts,
The surest presage of the good they seek. [ Cowper ]

Love ends with hope: the sinking statesman's door
Pours in the morning worshipper no more. [ Johnson ]

Life with all it yields of joy and woe,
And hope and fear,
Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,
How love might be, hath been indeed, and is. [ Browning ]

Life, unexplored, is hope's perpetual blaze
When past, one long, involved, and darksome maze:
But, that some mighty power controls the whole,
A secret intuition tells the soul. [ William Winter ]

In Faith and Hope the world will disagree.
But all mankind's concerned in Charity;
All must be false that thwart this one great end.
And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend. [ Alexander Pope ]

O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you
Hope to inherit in the grave below? [ Shelley ]

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies. [ James Fenimore Cooper ]

Let us believe what we can, and hope for the rest. [ De Finod ]

The great hope of society is individual character. [ Channing ]

Hope, withering, fled - and Mercy sighed farewell. [ Byron ]

Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope,
And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath
In that close kiss and drank her whispered tales.
They say that Love would die when Hope was gone.
And Love mourned long, and sorrowed after Hope;
At last she sought out Memory, and they trod
The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,
And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears. [ Tennyson ]

Hope keeps a man from hanging and drowning himself. [ Proverb ]

All temptations are founded either in hope or fear. [ Proverb ]

Eternal Hope! when yonder spheres sublime
Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time,
Thy joyous youth began - but not to fade -
When all thy sister planets have decayed; [ Thomas Campbell ]

Hope, withering, fled — and fancy sighed farewell. [ Byron ]

Yes - it was love - if thoughts of tenderness.
Tried in temptation, strengthened by distress,
Unmoved by absence, firm in every clime,
And yet - oh more than all! - untired by time.
Which nor defeated hope, nor baffled wile,
Could render sullen were she near to smile,
Nor rage could fire, nor sickness fret to vent
On her one murmur of his discontent;
Which still would meet with joy, with calmness part.
Lest that his look of grief should reach her heart;
Which nought removed, nor menaced to remove -
If there be love in mortals— this was love! [ Byron ]

The miserable have no other medicine. But only hope. [ William Shakespeare ]

Doubt follows white-winged Hope with a limping gait. [ Balzac ]

You must not hope to reap wheat where you sowed none. [ Proverb ]

Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps. [ Balzac ]

You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly. [ Terence ]

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. [ Hazlitt ]

Where the heart is past hope, the face is past shame. [ Proverb ]

Curiosity is a little more than another name for hope. [ J. G. and A. W. Hare ]

Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

There is hope in extravagance, there la none in routine. [ Emerson ]

God is the brave man's hope and not the coward's excuse. [ Plutarch ]

Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow. [ Victor Hugo ]

How much one must have suffered to be weary even of hope! [ Pauline ]

Hope ever urges on, and tells us tomorrow will be better. [ Tibullus ]

Let fiery hope sustain you in the pursuit of what is good. [ Zoroaster ]

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. [ Moliere ]

Should we condemn ourselves to ignorance to preserve hope? [ E. Souvestre ]

The fear that kills, and hope that is unwilling to be fed. [ Wordsworth ]

The only safety for the conquered is to hope for no safety. [ Virgil ]

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs. [ Crabbe ]

Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us agreeably through life. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Hope smiled when your nativity was cast. Children of Summer! [ Wordsworth ]

Hope, folding her wings, looked backward, and became regret. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]

No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment. [ R. W. Emerson ]

There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe. [ Vauvenargues ]

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. [ Ben Jonson ]

Lose the habit of hard labour with its manliness, and then,
Comes the wreck of all you hope for in the wreck of noble men. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]

What remains when hope is fled? She answered, Endless weeping. [ Rogers ]

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. [ Arabian Proverb ]

The energies of the soul slumber in the vague reveries of hope. [ Mme. Guizot ]

A good man has more hope in his death, than a wicked in his life. [ Proverb ]

To be happy is not to possess much, but to hope and to love much. [ Lamennais ]

You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope. [ The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (Katniss Everdeen) ]

As there is no love without desire, so there is none without hope.

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom. [ Burns ]

Hope is a lure. There is no hand that can retain a wave or a shadow. [ Victor Hugo ]

Necessity rouses from sloth, and despair is often the cause of hope. [ Rufus ]

What can we not endure. When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure? [ Nabb ]

I hope better, quoth Benson, when his wife bade him come in, cuckold. [ Proverb ]

Faith and hope themselves shall die, while deathless charity remains. [ Prior ]

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. [ Cicero ]

Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear. [ Browning ]

If your luck goes on at this rate, you may very well hope to be hanged. [ Proverb ]

It is best to be with those in time that we hope to be with in eternity. [ Fuller ]

To lament the past is vain; what remains is to look for hope in futurity. [ Johnson ]

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race. [ Scott ]

What we hope ever to do with ease we must learn first to do with diligence. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope, but not altogether without it. [ Scott ]

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [ Cicero ]

In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest. [ Livy ]

Hope says to us at every moment: Go on! go on! and leads us thus to the grave. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward to what they were before. [ William Shakespeare ]

Objects imperfectly discerned take forms from the hope or fear of the beholder. [ Johnson ]

And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care. [ Spenser ]

Hope for a season bade the world farewell, and Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell. [ Campbell ]

Evasive of the bridal day, she gives fond hopes to all, and all with hope deceives. [ Pope ]

Hope is the thing most universally enjoyed; for they have it who have nothing else. [ Epictetus ]

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the cloud is the sun still shining. [ H. W. Longfellow ]

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life. [ Francois M. A. de Voltaire ]

Hope is so sweet with its golden wings, that, at his last sigh, man still implores it. [ De la Pena ]

Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe. [ Campbell ]

No one would ever meet death in defence of his country without the hope of immortality. [ Cicero ]

Happiness is the shadow of man: remembrance of it follows him; hope of it precedes him. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Children are God's apostles, day by day sent forth to preach of love and hope and peace. [ Lowell ]

Knowledge is the hill which few; may hope to climb; duty is the path that all may tread. [ Lewis Morris ]

I have hope that society may be reformed, when I see how much education may be reformed. [ Leibnitz ]

Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults. [ Roscommon ]

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God. [ Lew Wallace ]

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection. [ Burial Service ]

Hope, deceitful as she is, serves at least to conduct us through life by an agreeable path. [ Rochefoucauld ]

His worth shines forth the brightest who in hope always confides; the abject soul despairs. [ Euripides ]

Promises retain men better than services. For them, hope is a chain, and gratitude a thread. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

The belief and hope of heaven, is a sufficient encouragement to virtue, when all others fail. [ Proverb ]

Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times more true. [ G. D. Prentice ]

Hope! hope, you miserable! There is no infinite mourning, no incurable evils, no eternal hell! [ Victor Hugo ]

We hope to grow old, yet we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and shrink from death. [ La Bruyère ]

Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation. [ Glanvill ]

Truth lies at the bottom of a well, the depth of which, alas! gives but little hope of release. [ Democritus ]

Marriage is a tie that hope embellishes, that happiness preserves, and that adversity fortifies. [ Alibert ]

We hope to grow old, and yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die. [ La Bruyfere ]

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall: A mother's secret hope outlives them all. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. [ B. R. Haydon ]

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left is left no fear. [ Milton ]

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. [ Chalmers ]

How often events, by chance and unexpectedly, come to pass, which you had not dared even to hope for! [ Terence ]

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The Golden Rule Of Three.

Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]

Joy is the ray of sunshine that brightens and opens those two beautiful flowers, Confidence and Hope. [ E. Souvestre ]

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame. [ Hazlitt ]

Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner; come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. [ William Shakespeare ]

We could not endure solitude, were it not for the powerful companionship of hope, or of some unseen one. [ Jean Paul ]

Bachelors are providential beings: God created them for the consolation of widows and the hope of maids. [ De Finod ]

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this. [ Atterbury ]

Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. [ Krishna ]

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others? [ Franklin ]

If God dwells inside us, like some people say, I sure hope He like enchiladas, because that's what He's getting! [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year. [ William Shakespeare ]

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual motion, and ceases to exist as soon as it ceases to hope or fear. [ La Roche ]

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future. [ Chamfort ]

Yet I argue not against heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer right onward. [ Milton ]

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. [ Cicero ]

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves. Fear, desire, and hope are still pushing us on towards the future. [ Montaigne ]

There is but one solid basis of happiness, and that is the reasonable hope of a happy futurity. This may be had everywhere. [ Johnson ]

I am a man of peace. God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace. [ Kossuth ]

A friend gilds the scene of life with sunshine, seasons the cup of plenty, assuages fear, quickens hope, and animates pleasure. [ T. L. O'Beirne ]

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things. [ Madame Swetchine ]

They that marry ancient people merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter. [ Fuller ]

Man should be ever better than he seems; and shape his acts, and discipline his mind, to walk adorning earth, with hope of heaven. [ Sir Aubrey de Vere ]

Though thou art disappointed in a hope, never let hope fail thee; though one door is shut, there are thousands still open for thee. [ Rückert ]

The year in its course, and the hour that speeds the kindly day, admonishes you not to hope for immortal (i.e. permanent) blessings. [ Horace ]

I hope you are becoming more and more interested in making those around you happy. That is the true way to secure your own happiness. [ Robert E. Lee ]

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. [ Johnson ]

Always driven toward new shores, or carried hence without hope of return, shall we never, on the ocean of age, cast anchor for even a day! [ Lamartine ]

The most lucrative commerce has ever been that of hope, pleasure, and happiness: it is the commerce of authors, women, priests, and kings. [ Mme. Roland ]

If a woman says to you, I will never see you again! hope; but, if she says, Notwithstanding, I shall always see you with pleasure - travel.

Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained. [ The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (President Snow) ]

He who has done the best he can, has a right to be as happy in the hope of ultimate triumph as though he was already enthroned amidst that triumph. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now. [ J. C. Hare ]

I hope in the future Americans are thought of as a warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick Americans as their mascot. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain, what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. [ George Washington ]

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know. [ Goethe ]

I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil. [ Amiel ]

When I cast my bread to the birds on the shores, the waves seemed to say: Hope! for, when thou comest to want, God will return thy bread! God still owes it to me. [ Hegesippe Moreau ]

Youth beholds happiness gleaming in the prospect. Age looks back on the happiness of youth, and, instead of hopes, seeks its enjoyment in the recollection of hope. [ Coleridge ]

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work. [ Fielding ]

Is it not the realization of his enforced sufferings in this world that gives man the hope of a better life after death, as a just compensation for the miseries in this? [ De Finod ]

He seldom lives frugally who lives by chance. Hope is always liberal, and they that trust her promises make little scruple of revelling today on the profits of tomorrow. [ Johnson ]

Eternity is the divine treasure-house and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing. [ Mountford ]

If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

All was ended now, the hope and the fear and the sorrow, all the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, fill the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Woman has a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope. [ Sainte-Foix ]

Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always - this is duty. [ Amiel ]

There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Were he ever so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. [ Carlyle ]

The generality of princes, if they were stripped of their purple and cast naked on the world, would immediately sink to the lowest rank of society, without a hope of emerging from their obscurity. [ Gibbon ]

The day of life spent in honest and benevolent labor comes in hope to an evening calm and lovely; and though the sun declines, the shadows that he leaves behind are only to curtain the spirit unto rest. [ Henry Giles ]

Tribulation worketh patience: and patience, experience; and experience, hope. That is the order. You can not put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation. [ Alexander Maclaren ]

Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them. [ Bovee ]

Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable celestial barrier, and the sacred air-castles of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality, and man by his nature is yet infinite and free. [ Carlyle ]

Nature builds upon a false bottom, seeks herself what she values in others, and is oftentimes deceived and disappointed. Grace reposes her whole hope and love in God, and is never mistaken, never deluded by false expectations. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit. [ Addison ]

Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other. [ Metastasio ]

Every man must bear his own burden, and it is a fine thing to see any one trying to do it manfully; carrying his cross bravely, silently, patiently, and in a way which makes you hope that he has taken for his pattern the greatest of all sufferers. [ James Hamilton ]

How many who, after having achieved fame and fortune, recall with regret the time when - ascending the hills of life in the sun of their twentieth year - they had nothing but courage, which is the virtue of the young, and hope, which is the treasure of the poor! [ H. Murger ]

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man. [ Beecher ]

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He that labors in any great or laudable undertaking has his fatigues first supported by hope and afterwards rewarded by joy. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him. [ Thomas Hobbes ]

A man who cannot win fame in his own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of commonsense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world. [ Novalis ]

Let any man examine his thoughts, and he will find them ever occupied with the past or the future. We scarcely think at all of the present; or if we do, it is only to borrow the light which it gives, for regulating the future. The present is never our object; the past and the present we use as means; the future only is our end. Thus, we never live, we only hope to live. [ Pascal ]

There is something too dear in the hope of seeing again.... Dear heart, be quiet; we say; you will not be long separated from those people that you love; be quiet, dear heart! And then we give it in the meanwhile a shadow, so that it has something, and then it is good and quiet, like a little child whose mother gives it a doll instead of the apple which it ought not to eat. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There is no moment like the present: not only so, but moreover, there is no moment at all, that is, no instant force and energy, but in the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and skurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. [ Miss Edgeworth ]

The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain. Their happiness consists entirely in present enjoyment. [ Chalmers ]

When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books. [ James Freeman Clarke ]

If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are, at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling. [ Sir H. Davy ]

The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions. It is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker. No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject. [ Blakey ]

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries; and, though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian, philosopher, and historian, - the humble listener, - there has been a divine melody running through the song, which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come. [ James A. Garfield ]

The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends. I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellowman with Him from whose hand it came. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it. Let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power. [ Emerson ]

True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself, it is not confined to partial views, or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself, its own integrity and worth. Hope awakens courage, while despondency is the last of all evils, it is the abandonment of good, the giving up of the battle of life with dead nothingness. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. [ Von Knebel (German), Translated by Mrs. Austin ]

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The word hope is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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hope in Words With Friends™

The word hope is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Words within the letters of hope

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