Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

2.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

3.

Never lose hope.

4.

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

Proverb, French

5.

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

6.

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

Revson, Charles

7.

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

8.

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

William Walsh

9.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

10.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

12.

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

Ovid

13.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

14.

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

Melville, Herman

15.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

20.

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

21.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

22.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

23.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

24.

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

Borland, Hal

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

28.

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

Rice, Wallace

29.

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

30.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

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.

32.

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

Euripides

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

Hazlitt, William

36.

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

Epictetus

37.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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 the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

40.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

41.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

42.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

43.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

44.

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

Cowley, Abraham

45.

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

46.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

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