Diogenes Quotes

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Hope is like compassion to me. It's like possibility and living in possibility.

Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?

Hope is universal.

Every man's entitled to hope.

Hope is a dream deferred.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Many dreams is what we had and plenty wishes.

We have to have dreams, even if they never come true.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

Dreams are hopes, and echoes of hope.

Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

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

I have plenty to look forward to, I'm sure.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.