Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is necessary in every condition.

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

2.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

3.

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

4.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

5.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

6.

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

Channing, William Ellery

7.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

8.

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

Cowley, Abraham

9.

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

10.

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

11.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

12.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

13.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

14.

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

Jackson, Jesse

15.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

16.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

17.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

18.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

19.

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

20.

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

Epictetus

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

23.

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

Euripides

24.

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

Revson, Charles

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

William Walsh

27.

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

Nash, Ogden

28.

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

29.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

30.

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

Arnold, Matthew

31.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

32.

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

Rossetti, Christina

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, Arabian

39.

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

Henley, Don

40.

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

41.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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.

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

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

Ovid

48.

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

Proverb, French

49.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

50.

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