Motivational Quotes

Hope

My only hope lies in my despair.

- Racine, Jean

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

William Shakespeare

2.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

3.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

4.

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

George W. Bush

5.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

6.

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

7.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

8.

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

9.

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

Melville, Herman

10.

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

Revson, Charles

11.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

14.

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

15.

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

Ruckett

16.

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

Rohn, Jim

17.

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

18.

Never lose hope.

19.

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

20.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

21.

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

22.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

23.

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

24.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

25.

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

26.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

27.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

28.

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

29.

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

Ovid

30.

Hope is a good thing but not if you depend on it solely.

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

33.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

34.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

35.

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

Rice, Wallace

36.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

37.

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

Cowper, William

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

Channing, William Ellery

41.

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

Kant, Immanuel

42.

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

Nash, Ogden

43.

My only hope lies in my despair.