Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Hope

Never lose hope.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Epictetus

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

Henley, Don

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

10.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

13.

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

14.

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

Borland, Hal

15.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

16.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

17.

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

Hazlitt, William

18.

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

19.

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

Rice, Wallace

20.

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

Nash, Ogden

21.

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

22.

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

Euripides

23.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

24.

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

Arnold, Matthew

25.

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

Proverb, Arabian

26.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

27.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

28.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

31.

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

32.

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

William Walsh

33.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

34.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

35.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

Miller, Henry

37.

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

Ruckett

38.

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

George W. Bush

39.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

40.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Luther, Martin

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

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

Ouida

44.

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

Rossetti, Christina

45.

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.

46.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

Cowper, William

49.

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

50.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean