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.

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

Proverb, French

2.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

5.

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

6.

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

7.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

8.

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

Channing, William Ellery

9.

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

Thomas Hobbes

10.

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

11.

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

Kerr, Jean

12.

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

13.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

14.

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

Rice, Wallace

15.

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

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.

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

Euripides

18.

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

19.

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

Nash, Ogden

20.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

21.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Arnold, Matthew

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

31.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

32.

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

33.

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

Borland, Hal

34.

Never lose hope.

35.

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

Luther, Martin

36.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

37.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

Jackson, Jesse

39.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

43.

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

44.

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

Ovid

45.

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

Cowley, Abraham

46.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

47.

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.

48.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

49.

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

Ruckett

50.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.