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.

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

Rice, Wallace

2.

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

Proverb, French

3.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

4.

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

Luther, Martin

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

8.

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

9.

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

Epictetus

10.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

12.

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

Hazlitt, William

13.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

15.

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

16.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

17.

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

Cowley, Abraham

18.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Henley, Don

19.

I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.

William Walsh

20.

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

Thomas Hobbes

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

25.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

26.

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

Proverb, Arabian

27.

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

28.

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

Rossetti, Christina

29.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

George W. Bush

33.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

34.

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

Cohen, Leonard

35.

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

Revson, Charles

36.

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

Kant, Immanuel

37.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

38.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

39.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

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

41.

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

Ruckett

42.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

43.

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

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von