Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Channing, William Ellery

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Luther, Martin

13.

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

14.

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

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

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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

17.

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

Ruckett

18.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

19.

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.

20.

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

Jackson, Jesse

21.

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

Kant, Immanuel

22.

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

Kerr, Jean

23.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

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.

26.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

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

Proverb, French

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

30.

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

Rice, Wallace

31.

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

Nash, Ogden

32.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

33.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

34.

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

Anna Lappe

35.

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

Arnold, Matthew

36.

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

Rohn, Jim

37.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

38.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

39.

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

Rossetti, Christina

40.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

41.

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

42.

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

Cohen, Leonard

43.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

44.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

45.

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

46.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

47.

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

William Walsh

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.

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

Ovid

50.

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