Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

2.

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

Proverb, Arabian

3.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

4.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

5.

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

6.

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

Nash, Ogden

7.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

8.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

9.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

10.

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

11.

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

William Walsh

12.

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

Rice, Wallace

13.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

14.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

15.

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

Cohen, Leonard

16.

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

Rossetti, Christina

17.

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

Ruckett

18.

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

Arnold, Matthew

19.

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

Robert H. Goddard

20.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

21.

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

Euripides

22.

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

23.

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

Ovid

24.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

25.

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

Melville, Herman

26.

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

27.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

30.

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

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

33.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

34.

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

Kant, Immanuel

35.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

36.

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

Henley, Don

37.

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

Kerr, Jean

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

Never lose hope.

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

Cowper, William

47.

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

Rohn, Jim