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

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

Ouida

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Hazlitt, William

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

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

Never lose hope.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

William Walsh

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

Proverb, French

10.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Cowper, William

18.

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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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

26.

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

Kerr, Jean

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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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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Epictetus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Ovid

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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