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.

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

Melville, Herman

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

6.

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

Kant, Immanuel

7.

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

Fuller, Thomas

8.

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

Epictetus

9.

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

Nash, Ogden

10.

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

11.

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

Henley, Don

12.

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

Jackson, Jesse

13.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

14.

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

Cohen, Leonard

15.

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

Luther, Martin

16.

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

William Walsh

17.

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

Thomas Hobbes

18.

Never lose hope.

19.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

20.

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

21.

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

Rice, Wallace

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

27.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

28.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

29.

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

Arnold, Matthew

30.

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

George W. Bush

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

34.

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

Ovid

35.

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

36.

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

Rossetti, Christina

37.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

38.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

41.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

42.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

43.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

44.

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