Motivational Quotes

Hope

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.

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

3.

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

Nash, Ogden

4.

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

5.

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

Luther, Martin

6.

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

7.

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

Revson, Charles

8.

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

9.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

10.

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

Euripides

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

12.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

13.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

14.

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

Fuller, Thomas

15.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

16.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

17.

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

Ouida

18.

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

Ruckett

19.

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

Cowley, Abraham

20.

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

Proverb, Arabian

21.

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

22.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

24.

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

Cowper, William

25.

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

26.

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

Ovid

27.

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

Cohen, Leonard

28.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

George W. Bush

32.

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

33.

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

Epictetus

34.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

35.

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.

36.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

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

Rice, Wallace

39.

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

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

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

43.

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.