Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is only the love of life.

- Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

2.

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

3.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

4.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

5.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

6.

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

Nash, Ogden

7.

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

Cohen, Leonard

8.

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

Cowley, Abraham

9.

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

12.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

13.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

17.

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

Euripides

18.

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

19.

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

Hazlitt, William

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

24.

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

Cowper, William

25.

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.

26.

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.

27.

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

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

29.

Never lose hope.

30.

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

Thomas Hobbes

31.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

32.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

Channing, William Ellery

35.

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

Luther, Martin

36.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

37.

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

38.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Arnold, Matthew

43.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

44.

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

Ovid

45.

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

46.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

47.

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

Jackson, Jesse

48.

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

Rice, Wallace

49.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.