Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

Cowley, Abraham

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Cowper, William

6.

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

Channing, William Ellery

7.

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

Proverb, French

8.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

9.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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.

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

13.

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

14.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

15.

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

16.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

17.

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

18.

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

Nash, Ogden

19.

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

Thomas Hobbes

20.

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

21.

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

George W. Bush

22.

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

Rohn, Jim

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

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

25.

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

26.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

27.

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

28.

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

Jackson, Jesse

29.

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

30.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

31.

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

32.

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

William Walsh

33.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

34.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

35.

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