Motivational Quotes

Hope

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Revson, Charles

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

George W. Bush

Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.

Johnson, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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 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

10.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

11.

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

12.

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

Cowper, William

13.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

14.

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

15.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

16.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

17.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

18.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

19.

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

20.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

21.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

23.

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

Thomas Hobbes

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

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.

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

Ruckett

29.

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

Ovid

30.

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

Channing, William Ellery

31.

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

Henley, Don

32.

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

Arnold, Matthew

33.

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

Rossetti, Christina

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Rice, Wallace

36.

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

Hazlitt, William

37.

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

Melville, Herman

38.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

39.

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

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

42.

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

Epictetus

43.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.