Motivational Quotes

Hope

Quit not certainty for hope.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

Revson, Charles

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

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

William Walsh

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

10.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

11.

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

Euripides

12.

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

Ouida

13.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

14.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

15.

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

Borland, Hal

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Ruckett

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Jackson, Jesse

23.

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

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

Hazlitt, William

25.

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

26.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

28.

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

Rice, Wallace

29.

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

30.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

31.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

32.

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

33.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

34.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

35.

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

Thomas Hobbes

36.

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

William Shakespeare

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.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

39.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

40.

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

41.

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

Cohen, Leonard

42.

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

Arnold, Matthew

43.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

44.

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

Rossetti, Christina

45.

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

46.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

47.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

48.

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

49.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English