Motivational Quotes

Hope

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Rice, Wallace

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

William Shakespeare

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Epictetus

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

Thomas Hobbes

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Kerr, Jean

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

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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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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

Proverb, French

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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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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Cohen, Leonard

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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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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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

33.

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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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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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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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, 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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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

42.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

43.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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

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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