Dynamics
He who has never hoped can never despair. (George Bernard Shaw)
Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt. (Eric Hoffer)
It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered. (Michael Harrington)
An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. (Samuel Johnson)
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man. (Nietzsche)
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope. (Petronius)
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: man never is, but always to be blest. (Alexander Pope)
The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm. (George Gising)
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. (Alfred de Vigny)
That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing. (Euripides)