Motivational Quotes

Hope

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Hope

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

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Epictetus

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Proverb, French

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

George W. Bush

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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

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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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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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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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Cowper, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

Nash, Ogden

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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Revson, Charles

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

Euripides

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Never lose hope.

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

Thomas Hobbes

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

Ouida

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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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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.