Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Cowley, Abraham

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Ruckett

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.

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Ovid

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Thomas Hobbes

11.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

12.

Never lose hope.

13.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

18.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

William Walsh

20.

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

21.

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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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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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 on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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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

27.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Borland, Hal

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

35.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

36.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

41.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

44.

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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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 is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Euripides

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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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.