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

1.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

2.

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

Epictetus

3.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

4.

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

Ovid

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Luther, Martin

8.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

9.

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

Cowley, Abraham

10.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

11.

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

12.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

13.

Never lose hope.

14.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

15.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

16.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

20.

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

21.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

23.

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

Jackson, Jesse

24.

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

Nash, Ogden

25.

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

Channing, William Ellery

26.

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

Borland, Hal

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Kant, Immanuel

33.

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.

34.

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

Cowper, William

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

39.

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

Rossetti, Christina

40.

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

41.

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

Rohn, Jim

42.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

43.

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

44.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

45.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

46.

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

47.

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

Thomas Hobbes

48.

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

49.

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

Rice, Wallace

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