Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Thomas Hobbes

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

Gissing, George Robert

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Revson, Charles

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

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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 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 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

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Never lose hope.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Ovid

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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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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Melville, Herman

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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Ouida

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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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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

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

William Walsh

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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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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 is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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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

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

Borland, Hal

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)