Motivational Quotes

Hope

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Hope

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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.

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

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

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

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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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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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

George W. Bush

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Rice, Wallace

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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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

21.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Cowper, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ouida

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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 on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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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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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 the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Euripides

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.