Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Henley, Don

Best Quotes about Hope

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

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

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

Borland, Hal

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

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

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

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

Henley, Don

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

William Walsh

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.

Johnson, John

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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Cowley, Abraham

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Ovid

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Ouida

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

Melville, Herman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Channing, William Ellery