Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Ouida

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Kant, Immanuel

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Ouida

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

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

Melville, Herman

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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.

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.

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

Cohen, Leonard

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

13.

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

Henley, Don

14.

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

William Walsh

15.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

16.

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

Rice, Wallace

17.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

18.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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.

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

24.

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

25.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

26.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

27.

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.

28.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

29.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

30.

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

Anna Lappe

31.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

32.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

33.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

34.

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

Nash, Ogden

35.

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

Arnold, Matthew

36.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

37.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

38.

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Kerr, Jean

39.

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

Epictetus

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

Jackson, Jesse

42.

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

43.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

44.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

45.

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

46.

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

Rossetti, Christina

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, French

49.

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

Thomas Hobbes

50.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian