Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Hope

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

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

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

Epictetus

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

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

10.

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

Lincoln, 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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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 only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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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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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

18.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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 a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

21.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Ovid

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

Euripides

28.

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

Cohen, Leonard

29.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Borland, Hal

42.

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

Proverb, French

43.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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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 necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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