Motivational Quotes

Hope

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about Hope

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

George W. Bush

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

Ovid

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

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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

11.

Never lose hope.

12.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

13.

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

14.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

15.

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

Henley, Don

16.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

17.

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

18.

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

19.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Cowper, William

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

29.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

30.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Jackson, Jesse

31.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

32.

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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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

35.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

36.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

39.

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

40.

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

Borland, Hal

41.

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

Rohn, Jim

42.

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

William Walsh

43.

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

Euripides

44.

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

Cowley, Abraham

46.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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