Motivational Quotes

Hope

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

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

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 only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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.

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Ouida

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

12.

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

Revson, Charles

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

14.

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

George W. Bush

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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

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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 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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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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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

William Walsh

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

25.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Proverb, French

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

Rohn, Jim

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

31.

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.

Proverb, Arabian

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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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 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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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.