Motivational Quotes

Hope

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

2.

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

Ouida

3.

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

4.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

5.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

7.

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

8.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

9.

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

10.

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

11.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

12.

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

Kerr, Jean

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

Ovid

15.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

16.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

17.

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

Rohn, Jim

18.

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

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, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

Oliver Goldsmith

21.

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

Revson, Charles

22.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

23.

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

Borland, Hal

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

26.

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

27.

Never lose hope.

28.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

29.

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

Channing, William Ellery

30.

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

Epictetus

31.

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

Nash, Ogden

32.

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

33.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

37.

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

Cowper, William

38.

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

Arnold, Matthew

39.

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.

40.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

41.

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

Thomas Hobbes

42.

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

Melville, Herman

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

46.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

47.

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

48.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

49.

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

50.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington