Motivational Quotes

Hope

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.

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

2.

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

Cowley, Abraham

3.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

4.

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

Epictetus

5.

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

6.

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

Proverb, French

7.

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

8.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

9.

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

Oliver Goldsmith

10.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

Thomas Hobbes

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

15.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

16.

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

17.

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

Revson, Charles

18.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

19.

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

20.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

22.

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

23.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

24.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

25.

Never lose hope.

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Nash, Ogden

28.

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

Henley, Don

29.

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.

30.

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

Jackson, Jesse

31.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

32.

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

33.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

34.

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

Ovid

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.

Cowper, William

38.

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

Luther, Martin

39.

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

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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

Channing, William Ellery

41.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn.

Borland, Hal

42.

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

43.

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

George W. Bush

44.

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

Kant, Immanuel

45.

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

Cohen, Leonard

46.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

47.

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

Rice, Wallace

48.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

49.

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

50.

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