Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Epictetus

6.

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

Proverb, Arabian

7.

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

Luther, Martin

8.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

9.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

10.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

11.

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.

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

14.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

15.

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

16.

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

17.

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

George W. Bush

18.

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

19.

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

Ovid

20.

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

21.

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

22.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Channing, William Ellery

26.

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

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

29.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

30.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

31.

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

Rohn, Jim

32.

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

Ouida

33.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

34.

Never lose hope.

35.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

36.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

37.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

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

William Walsh

39.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

40.

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

Kant, Immanuel

41.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

42.

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

43.

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

Hazlitt, William

44.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

45.

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

46.

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.