Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Borland, Hal

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

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

Revson, Charles

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Arnold, Matthew

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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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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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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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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Luther, Martin

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cowper, William

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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

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Ovid

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

Cowley, Abraham

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Epictetus

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Ouida

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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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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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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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 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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Never lose hope.

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

Rice, Wallace

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

George W. Bush

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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