Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Rice, Wallace

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

6.

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

Jackson, Jesse

7.

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

Nash, Ogden

8.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

9.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

10.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

11.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

12.

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

13.

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

Euripides

14.

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

Kingsley, Charles

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

17.

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

18.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

19.

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

Borland, Hal

20.

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

21.

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

Melville, Herman

22.

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

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

George W. Bush

29.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

30.

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

Cowper, William

31.

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

Cohen, Leonard

32.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

33.

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

Channing, William Ellery

34.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

35.

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

Hazlitt, William

36.

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

Kant, Immanuel

37.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

38.

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

Luther, Martin

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.

40.

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

Rohn, Jim

41.

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

Kerr, Jean

42.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

43.

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

Thomas Hobbes

44.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

48.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Marden, Orison Swett

49.

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

Cowley, Abraham

50.

Hope is necessary in every condition.