Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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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 like a hairball trembling from its birth...

Rossetti, Christina

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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cowper, William

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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 thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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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 parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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 your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Borland, Hal

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We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Barack Obama

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Arnold, Matthew

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Euripides

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Kerr, Jean

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.