Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Hope

The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Henley, Don

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...

Rossetti, Christina

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Ouida

10.

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

Thomas Hobbes

11.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

12.

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

Arnold, Matthew

13.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

14.

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

Luther, Martin

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.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

17.

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

Euripides

18.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

19.

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

Rice, Wallace

20.

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

Kerr, Jean

21.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

22.

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

23.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

24.

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

25.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

28.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

29.

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'.

Alexandre Dumas

30.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

31.

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

William Walsh

32.

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

33.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

36.

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

37.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

41.

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

Ovid

42.

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

Channing, William Ellery

43.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

44.

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