Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.

- Anthony, Dr. Robert

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

2.

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

3.

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

Luther, Martin

4.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

5.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

6.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

7.

To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

Cicero, Marcus T.

8.

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

Nash, Ogden

9.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Henley, Don

13.

Never lose hope.

14.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

15.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Melville, Herman

16.

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

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

19.

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

20.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

21.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

22.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

23.

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Thomas Hobbes

27.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

28.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

29.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

30.

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

Cowley, Abraham

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

33.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

34.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Schuller, Robert H.

35.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

36.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

37.

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

38.

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

Arnold, Matthew

39.

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

Kerr, Jean

40.

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

41.

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

George W. Bush

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Channing, William Ellery

44.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

45.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

46.

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

47.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

48.

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

49.

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

Revson, Charles

50.

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