Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Arnold, Matthew

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Rossetti, Christina

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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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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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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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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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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

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

Euripides

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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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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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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

31.

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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Never lose hope.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Cohen, Leonard

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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

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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Kerr, Jean

43.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Cowley, Abraham

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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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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

William Shakespeare

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.