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.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

2.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

3.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Melville, Herman

7.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

8.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

14.

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

Channing, William Ellery

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

18.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

25.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Rossetti, Christina

28.

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

Rohn, Jim

29.

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

William Walsh

30.

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

31.

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

Jackson, Jesse

32.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

36.

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

Fuller, Thomas

37.

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

Ovid

38.

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

Cowper, William

39.

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

Borland, Hal

40.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

41.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

42.

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

Euripides

43.

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

44.

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

Arnold, Matthew

45.

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

46.

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

Nash, Ogden

47.

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

Henley, Don

48.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

49.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

50.

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