Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

2.

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

Fuller, Thomas

3.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

4.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

5.

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

6.

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

Thomas Hobbes

7.

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

Cohen, Leonard

8.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

9.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

14.

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

Ouida

15.

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

Channing, William Ellery

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, French

18.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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.

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.

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

Ovid

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

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

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

29.

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

Borland, Hal

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Revson, Charles

33.

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

34.

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

Hazlitt, William

35.

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

Kant, Immanuel

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

39.

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

40.

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

Rossetti, Christina

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

43.

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

Melville, Herman

44.

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

Jackson, Jesse

45.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

46.

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.