Motivational Quotes

Hope

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn.

Borland, Hal

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

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Rossetti, Christina

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Henley, Don

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Arnold, Matthew

10.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

Channing, William Ellery

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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Cohen, Leonard

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

William Walsh

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Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

Kerr, Jean

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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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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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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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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Luther, Martin

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, French

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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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

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

39.

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

George W. Bush

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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.