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

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.

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

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Nash, Ogden

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Ruckett

10.

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

11.

Never lose hope.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

15.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

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

Euripides

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

20.

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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I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.

William Walsh

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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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

27.

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

Ouida

28.

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

George W. Bush

29.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

30.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Melville, Herman

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

37.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Revson, Charles

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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