Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

3.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

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

5.

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

Euripides

6.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

7.

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

8.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

9.

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

Jackson, Jesse

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Luther, Martin

13.

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

14.

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

Revson, Charles

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Ruckett

20.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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.

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

Borland, Hal

23.

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

24.

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

Arnold, Matthew

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

27.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

28.

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.

29.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

30.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

31.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

32.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

34.

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

35.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

36.

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

37.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

38.

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