Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Hope

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

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

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

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

George W. Bush

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Luther, Martin

12.

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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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.

14.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Nash, Ogden

17.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

18.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

19.

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'.

Alexandre Dumas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Melville, Herman

24.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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

Rice, Wallace

26.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes

32.

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

Ovid

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life.

38.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

40.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

43.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hazlitt, William

44.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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