Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

2.

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

Kant, Immanuel

3.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

4.

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

Rohn, Jim

5.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

6.

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

William Walsh

7.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

8.

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

9.

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

Nash, Ogden

10.

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

Borland, Hal

11.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Cohen, Leonard

17.

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

Kerr, Jean

18.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

22.

Never lose hope.

23.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

Ovid

25.

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

26.

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

Euripides

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Rossetti, Christina

32.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

33.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

34.

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

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Arnold, Matthew

38.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

39.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.