Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is only the love of life.

- Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

Best Quotes about Hope

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Rohn, Jim

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Epictetus

10.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

11.

Never lose hope.

12.

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

Rice, Wallace

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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 only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

William Walsh

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

Euripides

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

32.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

42.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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