Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

2.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

3.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

4.

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

Rice, Wallace

5.

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

6.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

7.

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

8.

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

Henley, Don

9.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

Euripides

10.

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

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.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

15.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

16.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

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

18.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

19.

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

Channing, William Ellery

20.

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.

21.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

24.

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

William Walsh

25.

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

26.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

27.

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

28.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

29.

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

Cowley, Abraham

30.

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

Kerr, Jean

31.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

32.

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

Proverb, Arabian

33.

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

34.

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

Anna Lappe

35.

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

Thomas Hobbes

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Luther, Martin

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

Melville, Herman

42.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

43.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

44.

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

45.

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

Kant, Immanuel

46.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

47.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

48.

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