A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
- Aristotle


He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
- Ben Franklin


Hope is a waking dream.
- Aristotle


I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
- Henry Ford


I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
- Abraham Lincoln


If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
- Lance Armstrong


My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
- Thomas Jefferson


The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
- Joe Biden


What is true of the individual will be to-morrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
- Mahatma Gandhi