Quotes about courage and hope
19 passages from classic authors that speak of courage and hope, for example by Aristotle, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.
We kept the passages whose text touches on the theme, starting with those where it comes up most. Each is given word for word, with its author, its work and the reference of the passage. To browse an author’s quotes, follow the name.
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“By doing just actions we come to be just; by doing the actions of self-mastery we come to be perfected in self-mastery; and by doing brave actions brave.”
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“I have been bent and broken, but--I hope--into a better shape.”
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.”
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“However deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.”
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“But the sun stood up there--orange-coloured and happy--and put courage into the whole world.”
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“It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
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“Teaism is the art of concealing beauty that you may discover it, of suggesting what you dare not reveal.”
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“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all”
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“The present is never our end; the past and the present are our means, the future alone is our end. Thus we never live, but hope to live.”
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“Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”
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“I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”
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“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.”
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“What boundless joys are thine, O just Renown, Thou hope of Virtue, and her noblest crown! By thee the seeds of conscious worth are fir’d, Hero by hero, fame by fame inspir’d:”
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“Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always, like God; to love always — this is duty.”
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“Courage, then, little soldier of the immense army. Your books are your arms, your class is your squadron, the field of battle is the whole earth, and the victory is human civilization.”
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“I shall never be able to express the joy of the untroubled quietness of this atmosphere of research and the excitement of actual progress with the confident hope of still better results.”
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“O glorious chief, while storms and oceans rav’d, What hopeless toils thy dauntless valour brav’d! By toils like thine the brave ascend to heav’n, By toils like thine immortal fame is giv’n.”
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“In all the animals new emotions were awakened. Each and all felt courageous and strong; enlivened by returning powers; born again with the spring; sprightly, and ready for all kinds of adventures.”
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“For forty years have I fought, with steadfast courage, against the paltry plagues of life; and the long-wished-for laboratory has come at last. What it has cost me in perseverance and relentless work I will not try to say.”