Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Revson, Charles

Best Quotes about Hope

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

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.

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

Luther, Martin

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

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

Epictetus

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Rohn, Jim

10.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

11.

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

Kant, Immanuel

12.

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

George W. Bush

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.

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

15.

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

Hazlitt, William

16.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

17.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

20.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

21.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

22.

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

Arnold, Matthew

23.

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

Rossetti, Christina

24.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

25.

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

Thomas Hobbes

26.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

27.

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

Kerr, Jean

28.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

29.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

30.

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

Cowper, William

31.

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.

32.

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

Ovid

33.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

34.

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

Rice, Wallace

35.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

36.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

37.

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

38.

He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

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

Jackson, Jesse

40.

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

41.

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

Cohen, Leonard

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Channing, William Ellery

46.

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

47.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

48.

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

Proverb, French

49.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

50.

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