“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
Helen Keller (verified)
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.”
— Winston Churchill (verified)“It is never hopeless. But sometimes I cannot hope. I try always to hope but sometimes I cannot.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)