Motivational Quotes

Hope

My only hope lies in my despair.

- Racine, Jean

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Hazlitt, William

4.

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

5.

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

Rohn, Jim

6.

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

7.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

8.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

9.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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

Borland, Hal

11.

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

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.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

14.

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

Proverb, French

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

17.

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

Ovid

18.

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

19.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

23.

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

Fuller, Thomas

24.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

25.

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

26.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

27.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Rossetti, Christina

31.

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

Cohen, Leonard

32.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

33.

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

Kerr, Jean

34.

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

Luther, Martin

35.

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

36.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

37.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

38.

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

39.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

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

41.

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

Thomas Hobbes

42.

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

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 necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

47.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

48.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

49.

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.

50.

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