Motivational Quotes

Hope

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

2.

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.

3.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

4.

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

William Walsh

5.

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

Henley, Don

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.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

8.

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

Ouida

9.

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

Luther, Martin

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.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

12.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

13.

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

Proverb, Arabian

14.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

15.

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

Revson, Charles

16.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

17.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

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

20.

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

Melville, Herman

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Rice, Wallace

25.

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

26.

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

Cohen, Leonard

27.

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

Thomas Hobbes

28.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

29.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

31.

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

Kerr, Jean

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

35.

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

Ovid

36.

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

George W. Bush

37.

To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

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

Cowley, Abraham

39.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

40.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

41.

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

42.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

43.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

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

Arnold, Matthew

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, French

47.

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

Rossetti, Christina

48.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

49.

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

50.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.