Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

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

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

Hope is the denial of reality.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories.

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

Hope is a waking dream.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future.

Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Hope is a way of moving through the world.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will.

Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

I understand why there was a need for hope in 1977. Everything was very grim. So the idea that there could be a future of just infinite possibilities for young people who are about to go out into the world is an amazing feeling as a teenager.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.

Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.