Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Melville, Herman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Ouida

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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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

11.

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

Nash, Ogden

12.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Luther, Martin

16.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

17.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

18.

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

19.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

20.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

21.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

22.

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

Proverb, French

23.

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.

24.

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

Proverb, Arabian

25.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

29.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

30.

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

31.

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

Ovid

32.

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

33.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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