Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Rossetti, Christina

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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.

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

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Cowper, William

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Never lose hope.

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

William Shakespeare

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Epictetus

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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

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ovid

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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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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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

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Kant, Immanuel

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Borland, Hal

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

George W. Bush

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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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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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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.