Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Cowley, Abraham

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

Fuller, Thomas

2.

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

3.

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

Cowper, William

4.

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

5.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

6.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

7.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

8.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

9.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

10.

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

Proverb, French

11.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

12.

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

13.

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

Ovid

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

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

Cohen, Leonard

16.

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

17.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

18.

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

19.

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

Nash, Ogden

20.

Never lose hope.

21.

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

22.

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

Kerr, Jean

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.

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.

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

27.

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

28.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

29.

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

30.

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

Henley, Don

31.

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

Luther, Martin

32.

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

Cowley, Abraham

33.

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

Rohn, Jim

34.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

35.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Rice, Wallace

39.

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.

40.

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

Ouida

41.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

46.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

47.

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

48.

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