Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

Euripides

2.

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

Nash, Ogden

3.

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

Ruckett

4.

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

Proverb, Arabian

5.

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

Fuller, Thomas

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

10.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

11.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

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

17.

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

Kerr, Jean

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Jackson, Jesse

22.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

24.

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

George W. Bush

25.

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

26.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

27.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

28.

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

29.

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

Rossetti, Christina

30.

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

31.

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

Thomas Hobbes

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Kant, Immanuel

36.

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

Rice, Wallace

37.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

38.

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

Channing, William Ellery

39.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

40.

Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.

Johnson, John

41.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

42.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

43.

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

Hazlitt, William

44.

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

45.

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

Ovid

46.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

48.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.