Inspirations

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.

- Maya Angelou

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.

- Dr. Robert Anthony

Hope is a waking dream.

- Aristotle

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

- Aristotle

Hope is the parent of faith.

- Cyrus A Bartol

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

- Hal Borland

Hope is the best part of our riches.

- Christian Nevell Bovee

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

- Robert Browning

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

- George Washington Carver

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

- Gilbert K Chesterton

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do, but keep his house open to hope.

- John Ciardi

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

- Marcus T. Cicero

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

- Leonard Cohen

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

- Fyodor Dostoevski

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

- Erik H Erikson

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

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

- Vaclav Havel

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

- William Hazlitt

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

- Jesse Jackson

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.

- John Johnson

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

- Samuel Johnson

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

- Immanuel Kant

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

- Charles Kingsley

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.

- Barbara Kingsolver

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Orison Swett Marden

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

- Herman Melville

The safest hope is in heaven.

- Motto

He who does not hope to win has already lost.

- Jose Joaquin Olmedo

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

- Ovid

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

- Matthew Prior

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

- Arabian Proverb

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

- French Proverb

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

- Italian Proverb

Were it not for hope the heart would break.

- Scottish Proverb

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

- Charles Revson

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

- Wallace Rice

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

- Ruckett

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.

- Charles Sawyer

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

- Robert H Schuller

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

- Samuel Smiles

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

- Source Unknown

Our hopes are but memories reversed.