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

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

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

Kerr, Jean

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.

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

Revson, Charles

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Cowley, Abraham

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

16.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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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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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Henley, Don

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

Proverb, French

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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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.

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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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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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Cowper, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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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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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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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