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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

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

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

Ovid

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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.

Johnson, John

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

Ruckett

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

William Walsh

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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 dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Euripides

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

George W. Bush

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

Rossetti, Christina

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The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that work. It is not for the money reward, for the time spent, or for the skill exercised, but for the successful result in the accomplishment of the work itself.

Weltmer, Sidney A.

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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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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Borland, Hal

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

Thomas Hobbes

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

Melville, Herman

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

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Rice, Wallace

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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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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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Nash, Ogden

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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