Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Ouida

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

Thomas Hobbes

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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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Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.

Rice, Wallace

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

Revson, Charles

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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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 the sick, while there is life there is hope.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Epictetus

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Cohen, Leonard

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

31.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ovid

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

Borland, Hal

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

Melville, Herman

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

Euripides

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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While there's life, there's hope.