Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Melville, Herman

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.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Proverb, French

10.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

11.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

12.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

13.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

14.

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

Ouida

15.

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

Thomas Hobbes

17.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

19.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

20.

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

Ruckett

21.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

24.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

25.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Epictetus

27.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Hazlitt, William

30.

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

31.

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

Rice, Wallace

32.

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 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

34.

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

Ovid

35.

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

Jackson, Jesse

36.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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My only hope lies in my despair.