Motivational Quotes

Hope

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

2.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

3.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

4.

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

Henley, Don

5.

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

Luther, Martin

6.

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

Anna Lappe

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

11.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

Kant, Immanuel

13.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

14.

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

Euripides

15.

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

16.

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

Revson, Charles

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Epictetus

22.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

23.

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

Cowley, Abraham

24.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

25.

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

Channing, William Ellery

26.

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

Kerr, Jean

27.

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

28.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

32.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

33.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

34.

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

Rohn, Jim

35.

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

Cowper, William

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

40.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

41.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

42.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

43.

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

44.

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

Rice, Wallace

45.

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

Borland, Hal

46.

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

47.

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

Arnold, Matthew

48.

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

William Walsh

49.

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

50.

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