Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

- Prior, Matthew

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

George W. Bush

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

Revson, Charles

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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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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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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