Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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.

2.

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

Channing, William Ellery

3.

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

Ovid

4.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Euripides

8.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

9.

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

Henley, Don

10.

Never lose hope.

11.

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'.

Alexandre Dumas

12.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

13.

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

14.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

15.

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

Cowley, Abraham

16.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Rice, Wallace

21.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

22.

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

Ruckett

23.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

24.

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

25.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

26.

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

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

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

Rossetti, Christina

30.

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

Proverb, Arabian

31.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

32.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

33.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

34.

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

Ouida

35.

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

Kerr, Jean

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

40.

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

41.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

42.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

43.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

44.

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

Revson, Charles

45.

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

Kant, Immanuel

46.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

47.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.