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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes

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

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Cowper, William

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

Rice, Wallace

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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

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Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...

Rossetti, Christina

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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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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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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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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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

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never lose hope.

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Proverb, French

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Luther, Martin

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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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

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

William Walsh

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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