Hope is only the love of life.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

All appears to change when we change.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the mann in which he behaves toward fools.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

—George W. Bush

He who has never hoped can never despair.

—George Bernard Shaw

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

—Epicurus

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the words,
and never stops at all.

—Emily Dickinson