Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Cohen, Leonard

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.

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

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Channing, William Ellery

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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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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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Cowper, William

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

George W. Bush

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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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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

William Shakespeare

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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 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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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand