Motivational Quotes

Hope

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Melville, Herman

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Henley, Don

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

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Epictetus

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Kant, Immanuel

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Luther, Martin

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Euripides

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Cowper, William

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Proverb, French

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Revson, Charles

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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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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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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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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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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