Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

William Walsh

2.

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

Ovid

3.

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

4.

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

Cohen, Leonard

5.

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

6.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

7.

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

Melville, Herman

8.

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

Borland, Hal

9.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

10.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

17.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

21.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

22.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

23.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

24.

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

George W. Bush

25.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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.

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

Kant, Immanuel

28.

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

Revson, Charles

29.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

30.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

31.

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

Euripides

32.

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

Rice, Wallace

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.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

35.

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

Rossetti, Christina

36.

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

Arnold, Matthew

37.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

38.

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

39.

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

Rohn, Jim

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Epictetus

44.

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

Channing, William Ellery

45.

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

Jackson, Jesse

46.

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

47.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

48.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

49.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

50.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.