Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

Cowley, Abraham

2.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

3.

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

Luther, Martin

4.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

5.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Rohn, Jim

6.

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

Hazlitt, William

7.

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

Borland, Hal

8.

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

9.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

10.

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

Arnold, Matthew

11.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

12.

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

Thomas Hobbes

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Epictetus

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.

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

18.

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

19.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

20.

Hope is a good thing but not if you depend on it solely.

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

Cowper, William

23.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

24.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

25.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

26.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

27.

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

Nash, Ogden

28.

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

Rossetti, Christina

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

32.

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

Proverb, French

33.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

34.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

35.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

39.

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.

40.

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

Ouida

41.

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

Rice, Wallace

42.

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.

43.

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

Ruckett

44.

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

Melville, Herman

45.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

46.

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