Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

- Prior, Matthew

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Epictetus

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

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

Thomas Hobbes

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

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

10.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

14.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

15.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

16.

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

Arnold, Matthew

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, French

19.

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

20.

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

Kerr, Jean

21.

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

Channing, William Ellery

22.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

23.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

24.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

25.

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

26.

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

Cowley, Abraham

27.

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

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

Ouida

29.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

30.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

31.

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

Luther, Martin

32.

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

Jackson, Jesse

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Ovid

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

40.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

41.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

42.

Never lose hope.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

48.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

49.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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