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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rossetti, Christina

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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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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

6.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Thomas Hobbes

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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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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Borland, Hal

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Melville, Herman

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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Rohn, Jim

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

George W. Bush

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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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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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Never lose hope.

23.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

26.

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

Cowper, William

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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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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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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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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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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Nash, Ogden

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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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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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.

37.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Euripides

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

Ovid

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

43.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

44.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Marden, Orison Swett