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

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

Arnold, Matthew

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Luther, Martin

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

Ovid

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

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

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

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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

10.

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

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Proverb, Arabian

13.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

14.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cohen, Leonard

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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

22.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Melville, Herman

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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 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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Never lose hope.

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Rice, Wallace

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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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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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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

William Walsh

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Cowper, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, French

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nash, Ogden

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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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