Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Cohen, Leonard

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Nash, Ogden

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Henley, Don

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Melville, Herman

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

William Shakespeare

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

Never lose hope.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Kerr, Jean

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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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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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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Thomas Hobbes

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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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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

William Walsh

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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 dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Cowley, 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 a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Euripides

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn.

Borland, Hal

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

Rice, Wallace

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Cowper, William

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

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

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