Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

Rice, Wallace

2.

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

3.

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

Arnold, Matthew

4.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

5.

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

Hazlitt, William

6.

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.

7.

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

George W. Bush

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

11.

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

Kerr, Jean

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

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

Cowley, Abraham

14.

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

15.

Never lose hope.

16.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

William Walsh

20.

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

Euripides

21.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

22.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

23.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

26.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

27.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

28.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

29.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

30.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

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

Cohen, Leonard

32.

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

33.

He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.

Proverb, Arabian

34.

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

Ovid

35.

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

36.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

37.

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

38.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

39.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

40.

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

41.

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

42.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

43.

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.

44.

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

Ouida

45.

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

Channing, William Ellery

46.

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

Epictetus

47.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.