Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is only the love of life.

- Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

Melville, Herman

2.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

3.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Cowley, Abraham

11.

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

12.

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

Jackson, Jesse

13.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Never lose hope.

18.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

19.

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

Arnold, Matthew

20.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

21.

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

Rice, Wallace

22.

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

23.

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

24.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

25.

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

Rossetti, Christina

26.

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

Thomas Hobbes

27.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

28.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

29.

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

Cohen, Leonard

30.

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

Proverb, French

31.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

32.

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

33.

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

Cowper, William

34.

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

Revson, Charles

35.

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

Euripides

36.

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

37.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

38.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

39.

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

Borland, Hal

40.

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