Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is only the love of life.

- Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Best Quotes about Hope

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Proverb, French

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Luther, Martin

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

10.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

11.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

12.

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

Cowley, Abraham

13.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

14.

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

Ovid

15.

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

16.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

17.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

18.

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.

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

21.

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

Rice, Wallace

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

24.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

25.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

26.

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

27.

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

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

Ouida

29.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

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

31.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

32.

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.

33.

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

Kant, Immanuel

34.

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

William Walsh

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

39.

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

Euripides

40.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

41.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

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

45.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

46.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.