Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Hope

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

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

William Shakespeare

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.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

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

Revson, Charles

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

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

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rossetti, Christina

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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 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 last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ovid

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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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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.

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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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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, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.

Rice, Wallace

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Cowper, William

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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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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Thomas Hobbes

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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 for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Euripides

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Hope is only the love of life.