Motivational Quotes

Hope

While there's life, there's hope.

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

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

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Euripides

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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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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

William Walsh

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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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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Cohen, Leonard

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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Proverb, French

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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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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Revson, Charles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

39.

Never lose hope.

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

Cowper, William

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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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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

William Shakespeare

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Nash, Ogden

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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