Motivational Quotes

Hope

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.

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

2.

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

Proverb, Arabian

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

6.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

8.

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

Revson, Charles

9.

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

Oliver Goldsmith

10.

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

Ouida

11.

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.

12.

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

Arnold, Matthew

13.

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

Nash, Ogden

14.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

15.

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

16.

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

Kerr, Jean

17.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

18.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

19.

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

20.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Thomas Hobbes

25.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

26.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

27.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

28.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

32.

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

William Walsh

33.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

34.

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

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

37.

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

George W. Bush

38.

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

Channing, William Ellery

39.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

40.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

41.

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

Euripides

42.

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

Kant, Immanuel

43.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

44.

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

Borland, Hal

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Jackson, Jesse

49.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

50.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.