Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Revson, Charles

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

Borland, Hal

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

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

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

Cowley, Abraham

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hazlitt, William

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

12.

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rohn, Jim

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Walsh

28.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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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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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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Never lose hope.

35.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Euripides

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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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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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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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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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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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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes