Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

2.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

3.

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

Cowley, Abraham

4.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

5.

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

George W. Bush

6.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

7.

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

8.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

William Walsh

10.

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

Cowper, William

11.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

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

14.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

15.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

16.

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

Revson, Charles

17.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

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

Borland, Hal

19.

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

Euripides

20.

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

21.

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

Channing, William Ellery

22.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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.

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.

26.

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

Rohn, Jim

27.

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

28.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

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.

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

Nash, Ogden

34.

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

35.

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

Henley, Don

36.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

37.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

38.

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

Arnold, Matthew

39.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

40.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

41.

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

Ovid

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

45.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

46.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

47.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver