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

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Nash, Ogden

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

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

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

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

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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 only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Luther, Martin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Cohen, Leonard

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Cowper, William

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, French

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

33.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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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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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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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Ouida

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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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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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.