Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

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

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

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, French

12.

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.

13.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

14.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

16.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

17.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

18.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Euripides

23.

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

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.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

26.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Kant, Immanuel

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Nash, Ogden

30.

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

Rice, Wallace

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

34.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

35.

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

36.

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

Cowper, William

37.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

38.

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Hazlitt, William

40.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

41.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

42.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

43.

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

Channing, William Ellery

44.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

45.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

46.

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

Arnold, Matthew

47.

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

Rossetti, Christina

48.

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

Kerr, Jean

49.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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