Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Hope

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 is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ruckett

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

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

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

Kerr, Jean

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To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

William Walsh

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Proverb, French

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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

24.

Never lose hope.

25.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

26.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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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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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

George W. Bush

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Henley, Don

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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