Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

2.

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

3.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

4.

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

Revson, Charles

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

8.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

9.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

11.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

12.

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

Cohen, Leonard

13.

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

14.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

15.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

16.

Never lose hope.

17.

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

Cowley, Abraham

18.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

19.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

20.

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

Borland, Hal

21.

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

Nash, Ogden

22.

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

Ovid

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Arnold, Matthew

25.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

26.

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

Kant, Immanuel

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Hazlitt, William

30.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

31.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

32.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

33.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

34.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

36.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

37.

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

William Walsh

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, French

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.

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

Proverb, Arabian

42.

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