Motivational Quotes

Hope

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Never lose hope.

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

Thomas Hobbes

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Ouida

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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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 good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Henley, Don

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

Cowper, William

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Revson, Charles

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

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

Epictetus

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

George W. Bush

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Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Ciardi, John

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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

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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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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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

Ruckett

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kerr, Jean

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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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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Schuller, Robert H.