Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

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

Arnold, Matthew

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 give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

Channing, William Ellery

11.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Melville, Herman

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

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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 a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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The secret of the true love of work is the hope of success in that work. It is not for the money reward, for the time spent, or for the skill exercised, but for the successful result in the accomplishment of the work itself.

Weltmer, Sidney A.

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

George W. Bush

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

Kerr, Jean

27.

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

Revson, Charles

28.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Nash, Ogden

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

William Walsh

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Ruckett

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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

Euripides

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

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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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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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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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Never lose hope.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Kant, Immanuel