Motivational Quotes

Hope

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'.

- Alexandre Dumas

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Rohn, Jim

2.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

3.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

4.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose

5.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

6.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

Euripides

7.

The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.

Cowper, William

8.

The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that work. It is not for the money reward, for the time spent, or for the skill exercised, but for the successful result in the accomplishment of the work itself.

Weltmer, Sidney A.

9.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hazlitt, William

10.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Angelou, Maya

11.

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.

Kingsolver, Barbara

12.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

13.

Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.

Rice, Wallace

14.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

15.

Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.

Sawyer, Charles

16.

Never lose hope.

17.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

18.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Arnold, Matthew

19.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

20.

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

Nash, Ogden

21.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out.

Becker, May L.

23.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

24.

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

Ovid

25.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

26.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

27.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

28.

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

Oliver Goldsmith

29.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.

Anne Lamott

30.

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

Anna Lappe

31.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

William Shakespeare

32.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

33.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

34.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

35.

Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May -- how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

Gissing, George Robert

36.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn.

Borland, Hal

37.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

38.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Cowley, Abraham

39.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

40.

I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.

William Walsh

41.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

42.

One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

Pound, Ezra

43.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

44.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Marden, Orison Swett

45.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

47.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.