Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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.

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.

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Epictetus

10.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

13.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

16.

Never lose hope.

17.

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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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Ouida

21.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

22.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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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

24.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

25.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

26.

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 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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Cowley, Abraham

30.

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

Nash, Ogden

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

33.

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

George W. Bush

34.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

35.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ruckett

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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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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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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

45.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

46.

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

Kant, Immanuel

47.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand