Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

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.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

3.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

4.

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

Luther, Martin

5.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes

6.

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

7.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

8.

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

Rossetti, Christina

9.

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.

10.

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

Cowley, Abraham

11.

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

Ouida

12.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

13.

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

Nash, Ogden

14.

Never lose hope.

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

17.

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

Henley, Don

18.

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

Euripides

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

21.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

22.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

23.

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

24.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

26.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

27.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

28.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

29.

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

Channing, William Ellery

30.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

34.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose

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 the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

37.

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

Melville, Herman

38.

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

Proverb, French

39.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

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

George W. Bush

41.

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

Revson, Charles

42.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

43.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Jackson, Jesse

44.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

50.

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

Marden, Orison Swett