Motivational Quotes

Hope

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Ovid

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

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

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

10.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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 dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Cowper, William

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Melville, Herman

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

21.

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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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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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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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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, French

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

Luther, Martin

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

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

George W. Bush

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Epictetus

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

Miller, Henry

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Nash, Ogden