Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Rossetti, Christina

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

2.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

3.

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

4.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

5.

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

Epictetus

6.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

7.

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

8.

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

George W. Bush

9.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

12.

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

Kant, Immanuel

13.

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

14.

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

Borland, Hal

15.

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

16.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Ouida

17.

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

Euripides

18.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

19.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

20.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

27.

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

Cowper, William

28.

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

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.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

31.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

32.

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

Jackson, Jesse

33.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

34.

The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that work. It is not for the money reward, for the time spent, or for the skill exercised, but for the successful result in the accomplishment of the work itself.

Weltmer, Sidney A.

35.

Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life.

36.

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

37.

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

Luther, Martin

38.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

39.

Never lose hope.

40.

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

Cohen, Leonard

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

46.

Quit not certainty for hope.