Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about 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

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

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

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

William Walsh

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Arnold, Matthew

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.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

12.

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

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

14.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

15.

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

16.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

17.

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

Kerr, Jean

18.

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

Cowper, William

19.

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

Ovid

20.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

21.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

22.

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

Rossetti, Christina

23.

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

Borland, Hal

24.

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

25.

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

Cowley, Abraham

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

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

Proverb, French

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

33.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

34.

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.

35.

The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Euripides

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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

39.

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

Proverb, Arabian

40.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

41.

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

42.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

43.

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

Rohn, Jim

44.

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

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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

46.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Marden, Orison Swett

47.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

48.

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

Revson, Charles

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.