Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Ouida

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

2.

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

Revson, Charles

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Thomas Hobbes

7.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

8.

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

9.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

10.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

11.

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

Arnold, Matthew

12.

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

Kerr, Jean

13.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

14.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

15.

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

Melville, Herman

16.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

17.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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.

20.

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

Cowley, Abraham

21.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

22.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

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

24.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

25.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

26.

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

Cowper, William

27.

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

Jackson, Jesse

28.

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

29.

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

30.

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

Rossetti, Christina

31.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

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

William Walsh

33.

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

Proverb, Arabian

34.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

35.

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

Kant, Immanuel

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

Rice, Wallace

39.

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

Rohn, Jim

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

44.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

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

Hazlitt, William

46.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

47.

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

48.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

49.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

50.

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