Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is the parent of faith.

- Bartol, Cyrus A.

Best Quotes about Hope

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Kerr, Jean

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Melville, Herman

10.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

11.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

12.

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

Cohen, Leonard

13.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

14.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

15.

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

Borland, Hal

16.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, French

21.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

22.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

23.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

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

25.

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

Rohn, Jim

26.

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

27.

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

Cowley, Abraham

28.

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

29.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

30.

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

31.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

32.

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

33.

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

Ovid

34.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

35.

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

36.

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

Jackson, Jesse

37.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

38.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

39.

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