Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Henley, Don

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

2.

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

Cohen, Leonard

3.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

4.

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

5.

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

Henley, Don

6.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

7.

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

William Walsh

8.

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

Proverb, French

9.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

10.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

Ovid

13.

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

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

18.

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

Luther, Martin

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

21.

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

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Euripides

27.

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

Ouida

28.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

32.

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

Rice, Wallace

33.

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

34.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

35.

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

George W. Bush

36.

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

37.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

38.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

41.

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

42.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

43.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

44.

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

Jackson, Jesse

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

48.

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

Arnold, Matthew

49.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

50.

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.