Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

Revson, Charles

3.

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

Henley, Don

4.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

5.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

6.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

7.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

8.

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

9.

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

13.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

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

William Walsh

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Cowper, William

23.

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

Ouida

24.

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

25.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

26.

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

27.

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

Nash, Ogden

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

31.

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

Hazlitt, William

32.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Cohen, Leonard

37.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

George W. Bush

38.

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

Jackson, Jesse

39.

Never lose hope.

40.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

41.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

42.

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

Rohn, Jim

43.

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

44.

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

Thomas Hobbes

45.

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

46.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

47.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

48.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

49.

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.

50.

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

Kant, Immanuel