Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

- Prior, Matthew

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Rohn, Jim

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

Arnold, Matthew

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Luther, Martin

10.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

11.

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 on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

13.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

14.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

George W. Bush

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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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Never lose hope.

18.

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

Proverb, Arabian

19.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

20.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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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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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

28.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Proverb, French

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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

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Ouida

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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

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

William Walsh

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

43.

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

Revson, Charles

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kant, Immanuel

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