Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Hope

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 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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Cowper, William

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

William Walsh

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

Fuller, Thomas

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

11.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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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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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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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 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

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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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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Revson, Charles

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

Kerr, Jean

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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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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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

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