Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Bob Hope (British-born American Comedian, Film Actor)

Leslie “Bob” Townes Hope (1903–2003) was a British-born American comedian who starred in more than 500 television shows and 70 movies. He is perhaps the most widely known and loved stand-up comedian in America.

Born in London, Hope moved to America when he was four. He gained stardom through vaudeville and Broadway before turning to radio, television, and films.

Hope was known for his deadpan, allusive style of comedy. In the series of memorable “Road” films (1940–62,) he memorably donned the role of a craven, incompetent man who merrily fails to become a romantic hero.

Hope was renowned for his yearly Christmas television specials from 1953 until 1994, and his extensive visits to American army camps. His charity and humanitarian causes earned him a Congressional Gold Medal (1962) and a Presidential Medal of Freedom (1969.)

Hope published several humorous books, in addition to The Road to Hollywood (1977) and other volumes of autobiography. The Hollywood Burbank Airport in metropolitan Los Angeles is officially named in his honor.

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You’ve got to be rich to have a swing like that
Bob Hope
Topics: Golf

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things—not the great occasions—that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope
Topics: Happiness, Christmas

I just hope I don’t have to explain all the times I’ve used His name in vain when I get up there
Bob Hope
Topics: Golf

I’d give up golf if I didn’t have so many sweaters
Bob Hope
Topics: Golf

I’ll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105
Bob Hope
Topics: Golf

You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope
Topics: Aging, Age, Old Age

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren’t penalized for being on grass.
Bob Hope
Topics: Golf

I don’t generally feel anything until noon, then it’s time for my nap.
Bob Hope
Topics: Age, Aging

If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope
Topics: Love, Kindness, Charity

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
Bob Hope
Topics: Christmas

Golf’s a hard game to figure. One day you’ll go out and slice it, shank it, hit all the traps, and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink
Bob Hope
Topics: Golf

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
Bob Hope
Topics: Children

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope
Topics: Age, Aging

I do benefits for all religions—I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
Bob Hope
Topics: Religion

I’ve been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals
Bob Hope
Topics: Golf

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
Bob Hope
Topics: Laughter

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.
Bob Hope
Topics: Money

Isn’t it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?
Bob Hope
Topics: Golf, One liners

The program is nearly over! I can feel the audience is still with me but if I run faster I can shake them off
Bob Hope
Topics: Audiences

We have fifty-one golf courses in Palm Springs. He(Gerald Ford) never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot…At least he can’t cheat on his score- because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded
Bob Hope
Topics: Golf

I love to go to Washington—if only to be near my money.
Bob Hope

People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope
Topics: Kiss

I was lucky I wasn’t a better boxer, or that’s what I’d be now – a punchy ex-pug.
Bob Hope
Topics: Difficulties, Adversity

If I’m on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him
Bob Hope
Topics: Golf

If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
Bob Hope
Topics: Golf

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