Motivational Quotes

Hope

Quit not certainty for hope.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

2.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

3.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

7.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Kerr, Jean

10.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

11.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

12.

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

13.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

14.

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

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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

Euripides

19.

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

William Walsh

20.

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

Rice, Wallace

21.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

22.

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

Proverb, French

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

Arnold, Matthew

27.

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

28.

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

George W. Bush

29.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

30.

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

Revson, Charles

31.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

32.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

33.

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.

34.

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

Thomas Hobbes

35.

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

36.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

40.

Never lose hope.

41.

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

Ouida

42.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

44.

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

Rohn, Jim

45.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

46.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

47.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

48.

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

Cowley, Abraham

49.

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

Cowper, William

50.

Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.

Sawyer, Charles