"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof." Barbara Kingsolver

"Training is the opposite of hoping." Nike

"It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable." Robert Brault

"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence." Lin Yutang

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for." 
Epicurus

"No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear." George Macdonald

"I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth?" Edward Giobbi

"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent." Jean Kerr

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