Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- William Walsh

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Ovid

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

Luther, Martin

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

Proverb, French

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Kerr, Jean

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

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

10.

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

Ruckett

11.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Rohn, Jim

16.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

17.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

18.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

19.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

20.

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

21.

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

Ouida

22.

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

Jackson, Jesse

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Arabian

25.

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

Arnold, Matthew

26.

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

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.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

29.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

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

Rice, Wallace

31.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

32.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

Melville, Herman

34.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

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.

37.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

38.

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

Cohen, Leonard

39.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

40.

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

Channing, William Ellery

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

45.

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

46.

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

47.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von