Motivational Quotes

Hope

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

- Kanin, Garson

Best Quotes about Hope

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cowper, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rice, Wallace

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Ruckett

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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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

11.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

14.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

18.

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

Thomas Hobbes

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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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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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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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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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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

25.

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

27.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

William Walsh

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

Epictetus

32.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

33.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

35.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Borland, Hal

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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 struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Melville, Herman

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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