Oscar WildeSourced
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan, Act III (1892)
Checked quotes about hope
12 quotes with a known source.
Franz KafkaAttributed
There is plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope — but not for us.
Source: Reported by Max Brod, Franz Kafka: A Biography (1937)
Dante AlighieriSourced
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
The inscription over the gate of Hell.
Source: Inferno III.9, tr. H. F. Cary
Alexander PopeSourced
Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
Source: An Essay on Man, Epistle I (1733)
Emily DickinsonSourced
"Hope" is the thing with feathers.
Source: Poem 254 (published 1891)
Robert Louis StevensonSourced
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Source: "El Dorado", Virginibus Puerisque (1881)
Rabindranath TagoreSourced
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
Source: Fireflies (1928)
Martin Luther King Jr.Sourced
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
King was adapting a line by the abolitionist preacher Theodore Parker (1853).
Source: Speech in Montgomery (25 March 1965)
Helen KellerSourced
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Source: Optimism (1903)
Albert CamusSourced
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
Source: "Return to Tipasa" (1952)
Václav HavelSourced
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Source: Disturbing the Peace (1986)
Percy Bysshe ShelleySourced
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Source: "Ode to the West Wind" (1820)
Famous, but not theirs
Quotes about hope that are usually credited to the wrong person.
Winston ChurchillNot theirs
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Actually: The Churchill Project lists it among things he never said.
George EliotNot theirs
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Actually: Not found in any of Eliot's novels, essays or letters. It was attached to her name in the late 20th century.
Walt WhitmanNo source found
Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.
The trail: Widely credited to Whitman, but not in Leaves of Grass or his prose.
C. S. LewisNot theirs
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Actually: Associated with motivational speaker Les Brown; not found in Lewis's works.
G. K. ChestertonMisquoted
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
The real words: Neil Gaiman's paraphrase (in Coraline, 2002) of Chesterton's essay "The Red Angel" in Tremendous Trifles (1909).
Martin LutherNot theirs
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Actually: Not found in Luther's writings; it first appears in Germany in 1944.