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

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

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

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

William Walsh

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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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

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Luther, Martin

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Euripides

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Borland, Hal

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

Channing, William Ellery

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Cowper, William

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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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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Ovid

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Never lose hope.

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Revson, Charles

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

Rohn, Jim

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