Motivational Quotes

Hope

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

2.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

3.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

4.

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

Rossetti, Christina

5.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

9.

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

Nash, Ogden

10.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

11.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

12.

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

Henley, Don

13.

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

14.

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

Revson, Charles

15.

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

Luther, Martin

16.

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

17.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

Euripides

21.

Never lose hope.

22.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

23.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

24.

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

Ovid

25.

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

26.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.

Anne Lamott

31.

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.

32.

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

Channing, William Ellery

33.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

34.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

35.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

36.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

37.

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

Cowley, Abraham

38.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

39.

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

40.

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

Ouida

41.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

42.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

43.

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

Rice, Wallace

44.

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

45.

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

George W. Bush

46.

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

47.

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

Fuller, Thomas

48.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.