Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

2.

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

3.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Luther, Martin

4.

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

Borland, Hal

5.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

6.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

7.

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.

8.

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

William Walsh

9.

Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life.

10.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

11.

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

Cowley, Abraham

12.

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

13.

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

Ovid

14.

The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.

Goldsmith, Oliver

15.

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

Hazlitt, William

16.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

17.

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

18.

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

Nash, Ogden

19.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

20.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

21.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes

22.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Cohen, Leonard

23.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

24.

I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.

Ouspensky, Peter Demianovich

25.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

26.

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.

27.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

28.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Ciardi, John

29.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Kant, Immanuel

30.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

31.

Hope is a good thing but not if you depend on it solely.

32.

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

33.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

34.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Epicurus

36.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

Channing, William Ellery

37.

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

Arnold, Matthew

38.

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

Epictetus

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

Kingsley, Charles

41.

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

42.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Henley, Don

43.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

44.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...

Rossetti, Christina

46.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

47.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

48.

He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.

Proverb, French

49.

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

Miller, Henry

50.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Cervantes, Miguel De