Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

Kant, Immanuel

3.

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

4.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

5.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

6.

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

7.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

8.

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

9.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

10.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

12.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

13.

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

Ovid

14.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

15.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

16.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

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

18.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

19.

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

Hazlitt, William

20.

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

Cowper, William

21.

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

Proverb, French

22.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

23.

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

Arnold, Matthew

24.

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.

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Rohn, Jim

27.

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

28.

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

George W. Bush

29.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

32.

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.

33.

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

Borland, Hal

34.

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

Proverb, Arabian

35.

The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.

Goldsmith, Oliver

36.

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

Cohen, Leonard

37.

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

Euripides

38.

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

39.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

40.

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.

41.

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

Rice, Wallace

42.

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

43.

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

Revson, Charles

44.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

45.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

46.

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