Motivational Quotes

Hope

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Hope

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

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

Revson, Charles

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.

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

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

Ruckett

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

Ovid

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Ouida

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Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.

Rice, Wallace

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

Rohn, Jim

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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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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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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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Borland, Hal

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

William Walsh

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

Proverb, French

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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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 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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The safest hope is in heaven.

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