Motivational Quotes

Hope

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Luther, Martin

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Rossetti, Christina

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

10.

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

Proverb, Arabian

11.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

12.

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

Ouida

13.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

14.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

15.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

16.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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.

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

21.

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

Revson, Charles

22.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Kant, Immanuel

29.

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

Ovid

30.

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

Kerr, Jean

31.

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

Cowley, Abraham

32.

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.

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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

34.

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

35.

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

William Walsh

36.

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

Cohen, Leonard

37.

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.

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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

39.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

Epictetus

42.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

45.

The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.

Goldsmith, Oliver

46.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

47.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.