Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

2.

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

Thomas Hobbes

3.

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

Kant, Immanuel

4.

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

5.

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

William Shakespeare

6.

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

7.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

8.

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

Luther, Martin

9.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Rossetti, Christina

12.

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

Ovid

13.

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

Euripides

14.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

15.

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

16.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

17.

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.

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.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Arnold, Matthew

22.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

23.

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

Kerr, Jean

24.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

25.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

26.

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

Rohn, Jim

27.

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.

28.

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

29.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

30.

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

William Walsh

31.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

32.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

33.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

34.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

35.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

36.

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.

37.

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

Hazlitt, William

38.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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 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

41.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

42.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

43.

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

Cohen, Leonard

44.

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

Proverb, French

45.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

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

Epictetus

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

50.

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