Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is necessary in every condition.

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

Ouida

2.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

3.

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

Revson, Charles

4.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

5.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

6.

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

7.

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

George W. Bush

8.

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

Cohen, Leonard

9.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

11.

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.

12.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

18.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

19.

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

Melville, Herman

20.

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

Rossetti, Christina

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

23.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

24.

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

Rice, Wallace

25.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

26.

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

27.

Never lose hope.

28.

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

29.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

31.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

32.

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

Channing, William Ellery

33.

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

34.

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

Arnold, Matthew

35.

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

Hazlitt, William

36.

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

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

40.

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

Ruckett

41.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

42.

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

Cowley, Abraham

43.

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

44.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

48.

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

William Walsh

49.

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

50.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.