Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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.

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

Ouida

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Cowley, Abraham

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Rice, Wallace

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

William Walsh

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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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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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

George W. Bush

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

Epictetus

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Euripides

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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.