Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is only the love of life.

- Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Best Quotes about Hope

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Rossetti, Christina

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life.

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Epictetus

10.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

11.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

12.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

13.

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

Revson, Charles

14.

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.

15.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

16.

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

William Walsh

17.

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

Kant, Immanuel

18.

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

Henley, Don

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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

20.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

21.

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

Proverb, Arabian

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Cowley, Abraham

24.

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

Arnold, Matthew

25.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

28.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

29.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

30.

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

Melville, Herman

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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

32.

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

Proverb, French

33.

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

Hazlitt, William

34.

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

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

37.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ovid

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.