Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

2.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

3.

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

4.

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

William Walsh

5.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

6.

Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

Sade, Marquis De

7.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

8.

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

Kerr, Jean

9.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

10.

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.

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

15.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

16.

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

Henley, Don

17.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

22.

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

Thomas Hobbes

23.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

24.

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

Nash, Ogden

25.

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Barack Obama

26.

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

Euripides

27.

He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

29.

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

Arnold, Matthew

30.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

George W. Bush

33.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

34.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

Rossetti, Christina

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Kant, Immanuel

38.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

39.

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

40.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Ouida

41.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

42.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

43.

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

44.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

45.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

46.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

47.

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

48.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Jackson, Jesse

49.

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.

50.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.