Motivational Quotes

Hope

While there's life, there's hope.

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

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 is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

William Walsh

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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

George W. Bush

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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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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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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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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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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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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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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

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

Rossetti, Christina

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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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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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Never lose hope.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.