Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

5.

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

6.

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

Henley, Don

7.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

8.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

Ouida

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

14.

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

Kerr, Jean

15.

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

Channing, William Ellery

16.

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.

17.

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

Euripides

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

26.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

27.

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

Proverb, French

28.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

29.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

30.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

31.

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

32.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

33.

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

Arnold, Matthew

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

36.

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

Melville, Herman

37.

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

38.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

40.

Never lose hope.

41.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

42.

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

Rossetti, Christina

43.

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

Kant, Immanuel

44.

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

45.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

46.

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

Hazlitt, William

47.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

William Walsh

50.

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