Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Kerr, Jean

Best Quotes about Hope

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that work. It is not for the money reward, for the time spent, or for the skill exercised, but for the successful result in the accomplishment of the work itself.

Weltmer, Sidney A.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Cowley, Abraham

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Never lose hope.

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

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

10.

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

Borland, Hal

11.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

12.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

13.

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

Kerr, Jean

14.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

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

Cowper, William

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Nash, Ogden

19.

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

20.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

21.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

22.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

24.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

25.

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

Melville, Herman

26.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

27.

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

28.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

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

William Walsh

30.

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

31.

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

Channing, William Ellery

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

35.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

36.

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

Rohn, Jim

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

41.

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

Henley, Don

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To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

44.

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

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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

46.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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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

48.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

49.

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

Euripides

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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