Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.

Anne Lamott

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

Never lose hope.

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

Channing, William Ellery

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

10.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Kerr, Jean

13.

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

Proverb, French

14.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

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

Rossetti, Christina

16.

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.

17.

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

Arnold, Matthew

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

Miller, Henry

21.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

22.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

23.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

24.

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

William Walsh

25.

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

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

27.

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

George W. Bush

28.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

29.

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

Cowley, Abraham

30.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Euripides

36.

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

Kant, Immanuel

37.

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

Ruckett

38.

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

Rice, Wallace

39.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

40.

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

41.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

42.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

44.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

45.

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

46.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca