Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Hope

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

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

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

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

Kerr, Jean

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Euripides

Never lose hope.

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

Jackson, Jesse

10.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

11.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

12.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

13.

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

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

16.

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

George W. Bush

17.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

18.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

19.

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.

20.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

21.

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

22.

He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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

Thomas Hobbes

24.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hazlitt, William

25.

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

26.

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

Cowley, Abraham

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

29.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

30.

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

Proverb, French

31.

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

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

36.

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

Luther, Martin

37.

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

Borland, Hal

38.

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'.

Alexandre Dumas

39.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

41.

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

Nash, Ogden

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Arnold, Matthew

45.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

46.

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

Epictetus

47.

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

48.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

49.

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

Cowper, William

50.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb