Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

George W. Bush

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

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

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

Cowper, William

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

Euripides

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

Melville, Herman

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

10.

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

Channing, William Ellery

11.

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

Borland, Hal

12.

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

Cowley, Abraham

13.

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

Arnold, Matthew

14.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

15.

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

Thomas Hobbes

16.

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

Henley, Don

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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

18.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

19.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

20.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

21.

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

Revson, Charles

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Cohen, Leonard

25.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

26.

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

27.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Proverb, Arabian

30.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

31.

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

William Walsh

32.

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

Rohn, Jim

33.

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

34.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

35.

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.

36.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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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

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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

39.

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

40.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

41.

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

42.

Never lose hope.

43.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

45.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

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

Ouida

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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

48.

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

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

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin