Motivational Quotes

Hope

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Hope

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

William Shakespeare

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

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 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

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

Cohen, Leonard

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

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

Melville, Herman

12.

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

13.

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

Channing, William Ellery

14.

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

Borland, Hal

15.

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

16.

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

Euripides

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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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

22.

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

23.

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

Rice, Wallace

24.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

25.

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

George W. Bush

26.

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

27.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

30.

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

Revson, Charles

31.

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

32.

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

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

Cowley, Abraham

34.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Arnold, Matthew

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

38.

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

Proverb, Arabian

39.

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

40.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

41.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

42.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

45.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

46.

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.

47.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

49.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Never lose hope.