Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Borland, Hal

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Ouida

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Arnold, Matthew

11.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

16.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

17.

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

Euripides

18.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

19.

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.

20.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

George W. Bush

21.

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

William Walsh

22.

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

Cohen, Leonard

23.

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

24.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

25.

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.

26.

Never lose hope.

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 only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

29.

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

Cowper, William

30.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

31.

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

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

34.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

35.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

36.

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

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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

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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

39.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

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

41.

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

42.

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

43.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

44.

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

Borland, Hal

45.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

46.

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