Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Hope

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

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

Nash, Ogden

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Revson, Charles

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

10.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

11.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

12.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

13.

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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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

15.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

16.

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

17.

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

Melville, Herman

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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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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

20.

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.

21.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

22.

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

23.

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

Ruckett

24.

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

Cowper, William

25.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

26.

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

27.

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

Epictetus

28.

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

George W. Bush

29.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

31.

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

Rossetti, Christina

32.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

35.

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

36.

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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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.

38.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

39.

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

40.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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