Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

2.

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.

3.

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

Borland, Hal

4.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

5.

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

Arnold, Matthew

6.

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

Rice, Wallace

7.

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

8.

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

Kant, Immanuel

9.

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

Channing, William Ellery

10.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

11.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

Melville, Herman

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

15.

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

Luther, Martin

16.

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

Euripides

17.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

18.

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

Nash, Ogden

19.

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

20.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

21.

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

Kerr, Jean

22.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

23.

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

Ouida

24.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

25.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

26.

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

27.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

28.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Revson, Charles

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

George W. Bush

33.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

34.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

35.

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

36.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

37.

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.

38.

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

Rossetti, Christina

39.

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

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

Rohn, Jim

42.

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

43.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

44.

Never lose hope.

45.

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

46.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

47.

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

Cowley, Abraham

48.

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

Cohen, Leonard

49.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.