Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

2.

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

Cowley, Abraham

3.

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

Fuller, Thomas

4.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.

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

6.

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

Cowper, William

7.

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

William Walsh

8.

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

Rice, Wallace

9.

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

10.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

11.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

12.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

27.

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

Ouida

28.

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

29.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

30.

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

Cohen, Leonard

31.

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

Luther, Martin

32.

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

33.

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

Nash, Ogden

34.

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

George W. Bush

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

38.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

39.

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

Channing, William Ellery

40.

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

Thomas Hobbes

41.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

47.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

48.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

49.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

50.

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