Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

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

2.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

3.

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

Cohen, Leonard

4.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

5.

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

Kerr, Jean

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

9.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

10.

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

Borland, Hal

11.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

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

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

15.

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

16.

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

Cowper, William

17.

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

Arnold, Matthew

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, French

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Cowley, Abraham

23.

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

24.

Never lose hope.

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

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

Hazlitt, William

28.

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

Revson, Charles

29.

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

Euripides

30.

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

Ovid

31.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

32.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

33.

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

Nash, Ogden

34.

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

Channing, William Ellery

35.

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

36.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

37.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

38.

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

Rohn, Jim

39.

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

40.

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

Henley, Don

41.

There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out.

Becker, May L.

42.

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

Melville, Herman

43.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

44.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

45.

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

Jackson, Jesse

46.

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

47.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green