Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Cowper, William

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

Euripides

10.

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

George W. Bush

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Ouida

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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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

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

Proverb, French

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Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

Anna Lappe

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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.

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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

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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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

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

31.

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Henley, Don

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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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

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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

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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Borland, Hal

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

William Walsh

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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