Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Revson, Charles

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

2.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

3.

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

4.

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

Luther, Martin

5.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

9.

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

Arnold, Matthew

10.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

11.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Euripides

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

17.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

18.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

21.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

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

Proverb, French

25.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

26.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

27.

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

28.

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

Nash, Ogden

29.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

30.

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

Cowley, Abraham

31.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

32.

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

Cowper, William

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Revson, Charles

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

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

Rohn, Jim

40.

Never lose hope.

41.

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

Melville, Herman

42.

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

43.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

47.

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

Rice, Wallace

48.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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