Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Ouida

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Melville, Herman

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

Revson, Charles

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ouida

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

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

11.

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

Euripides

12.

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

13.

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

Rohn, Jim

14.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

15.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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.

18.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

19.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

20.

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

Kerr, Jean

21.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

William Walsh

26.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

27.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

28.

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

George W. Bush

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Borland, Hal

31.

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

Arnold, Matthew

32.

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

33.

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

Channing, William Ellery

34.

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

35.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

36.

Never lose hope.

37.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

38.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

41.

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

Cohen, Leonard

42.

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

43.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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

46.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

47.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson