Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

- Prior, Matthew

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Ovid

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

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

Revson, Charles

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

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

Ouida

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Cowper, William

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

Kant, Immanuel

11.

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Fuller, Thomas

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Proverb, French

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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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 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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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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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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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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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 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

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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Melville, Herman

41.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May -- how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

Gissing, George Robert

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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes

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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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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Angelou, Maya

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.