Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

2.

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

Kant, Immanuel

3.

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

4.

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

Cowley, Abraham

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

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

Revson, Charles

8.

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

9.

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

10.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

14.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

16.

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

Rohn, Jim

17.

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

Arnold, Matthew

18.

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

19.

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

George W. Bush

20.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

21.

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

Henley, Don

22.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

23.

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.

24.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

25.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

26.

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

William Walsh

27.

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

Channing, William Ellery

28.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

29.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

Never lose hope.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Rossetti, Christina

37.

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

Nash, Ogden

38.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.