Motivational Quotes

Hope

The safest hope is in heaven.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Hope

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

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

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Henley, Don

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

Ruckett

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

Ovid

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

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

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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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

11.

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

Kerr, Jean

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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

Borland, Hal

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Ouida

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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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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 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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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

Proverb, French

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

27.

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

28.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Melville, Herman

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

George W. Bush

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

Cowley, Abraham

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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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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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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

Revson, Charles

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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

44.

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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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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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