Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hazlitt, William

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

Revson, Charles

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Arnold, Matthew

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Never lose hope.

12.

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

13.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

14.

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

15.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

16.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

17.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

18.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

19.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Jackson, Jesse

20.

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

Rohn, Jim

21.

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

George W. Bush

22.

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

23.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

24.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

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

26.

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

Cowper, William

27.

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

Ovid

28.

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

29.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Epictetus

30.

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

Borland, Hal

31.

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

Euripides

32.

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

Melville, Herman

33.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

38.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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