Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Epictetus

4.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

5.

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

6.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Melville, Herman

7.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

8.

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

9.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

10.

He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

12.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

13.

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

Rossetti, Christina

14.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

16.

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

Cohen, Leonard

17.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

18.

Never lose hope.

19.

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

Ouida

20.

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

Henley, Don

21.

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

Luther, Martin

22.

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

Rice, Wallace

23.

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

Jackson, Jesse

24.

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

Arnold, Matthew

25.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

26.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

27.

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

Rohn, Jim

28.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

29.

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

George W. Bush

30.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

31.

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

Proverb, French

32.

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

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

35.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

36.

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

William Walsh

37.

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

Hazlitt, William

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

Revson, Charles

42.

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

43.

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

Euripides

44.

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

Channing, William Ellery

45.

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

46.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew