Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Rohn, Jim

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

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Henley, Don

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

10.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

11.

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

Cohen, Leonard

12.

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

Luther, Martin

13.

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

14.

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

Euripides

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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.

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

Cowley, Abraham

20.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

21.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

22.

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

Kant, Immanuel

23.

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

24.

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

Arnold, Matthew

25.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

26.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

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

28.

There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out.

Becker, May L.

29.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

30.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

31.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

33.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

34.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

35.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

36.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

37.

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

Revson, Charles

38.

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

Rossetti, Christina

39.

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.

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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

41.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

42.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

43.

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

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.