Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Hope

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Euripides

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

Proverb, French

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

Ouida

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

Kerr, Jean

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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

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

Melville, Herman

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

Borland, Hal

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

Arnold, Matthew

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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 is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Ovid

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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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

40.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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