Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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.

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

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Cohen, Leonard

15.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

16.

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

Proverb, French

17.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

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

Euripides

19.

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

Melville, Herman

20.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

21.

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

22.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

23.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

24.

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

Rice, Wallace

25.

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

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

27.

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

Kerr, Jean

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

30.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

31.

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

Ouida

32.

Never lose hope.

33.

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

George W. Bush

34.

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

35.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

36.

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

Channing, William Ellery

37.

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

Cowper, William

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

41.

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

Rossetti, Christina

42.

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

43.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

44.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

45.

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

Arnold, Matthew

46.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

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

Epictetus

48.

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

49.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

50.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel