Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Cowper, William

10.

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

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

12.

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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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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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

16.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Revson, Charles

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

27.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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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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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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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

31.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Rice, Wallace

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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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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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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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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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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

41.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Euripides

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

Proverb, French

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

Borland, Hal

47.

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

Ouida

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis