"Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated"

"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness"

"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character"

"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity"

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us"

"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes"

"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool"

"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing"

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits"

"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook"

"Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows"