Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

Cowley, Abraham

2.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

3.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

4.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

5.

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

George W. Bush

6.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

7.

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

8.

Never lose hope.

9.

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

Ovid

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Kant, Immanuel

13.

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.

14.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

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

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Proverb, Arabian

20.

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

21.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

22.

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

Euripides

23.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

24.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

27.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

28.

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

Melville, Herman

29.

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

30.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

31.

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

Hazlitt, William

32.

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.

33.

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

Rohn, Jim

34.

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

35.

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

36.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

37.

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

38.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

42.

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

Cowper, William

43.

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

Channing, William Ellery

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

William Walsh

47.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

48.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

49.

While there's life, there's hope.