Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

Epictetus

2.

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

Channing, William Ellery

3.

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

Ovid

4.

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

5.

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

6.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

7.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

8.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

9.

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

Luther, Martin

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Cohen, Leonard

16.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Henley, Don

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Ruckett

22.

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

Thomas Hobbes

23.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

24.

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

Euripides

25.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb, French

28.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

29.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

30.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Rossetti, Christina

33.

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

Jackson, Jesse

34.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

35.

Never lose hope.

36.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

37.

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

38.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

39.

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

Cowper, William

40.

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

41.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

42.

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

Rohn, Jim

43.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

44.

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

Arnold, Matthew

45.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

46.

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

47.

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

Kerr, Jean

48.

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

49.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

50.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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