Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

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

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Ovid

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

Revson, Charles

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

Melville, Herman

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

William Walsh

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Channing, William Ellery

15.

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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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

17.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

18.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

19.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

20.

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

21.

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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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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

25.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

26.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

27.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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

Proverb, French

29.

Never lose hope.

30.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Cowper, William

33.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

35.

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

Borland, Hal

36.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

38.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

39.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

40.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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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 good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Nash, Ogden

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

46.

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ouida

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

Rossetti, Christina