Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Arnold, Matthew

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Cowper, William

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

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

Euripides

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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 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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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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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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Revson, Charles

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Thomas Hobbes

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Ovid

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

Nash, Ogden

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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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 parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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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

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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

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

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Never lose hope.

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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Epictetus

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Oliver Goldsmith