Motivational Quotes

Hope

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.

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Ruckett

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Ouida

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Borland, Hal

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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 pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Epictetus

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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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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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 phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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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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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

30.

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

George W. Bush

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Arabian

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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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Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ovid

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Revson, Charles

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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 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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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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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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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.