Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Proverb, Arabian

To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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

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

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Revson, Charles

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict 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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Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

Nash, Ogden

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

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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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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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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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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

Borland, Hal

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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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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Ruckett

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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

Ouida

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Cohen, Leonard

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

William Walsh

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Ovid

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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 the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.

Anthony, Dr. Robert