Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

2.

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.

3.

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

Ruckett

4.

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

5.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

6.

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

7.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

8.

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

9.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

10.

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

Cowper, William

11.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

12.

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

Rice, Wallace

13.

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

Nash, Ogden

14.

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

Jackson, Jesse

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Cohen, Leonard

18.

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

Henley, Don

19.

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

20.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

21.

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

Ovid

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

Borland, Hal

24.

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.

25.

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

Kant, Immanuel

26.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

27.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

28.

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

Euripides

29.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

30.

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

Channing, William Ellery

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

33.

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

George W. Bush

34.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

35.

Never lose hope.

36.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

37.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

38.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

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

William Walsh

40.

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

Thomas Hobbes

41.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

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

Hazlitt, William

43.

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

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

47.

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