Motivational Quotes

Hope

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

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

Kerr, Jean

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.

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

George W. Bush

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

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

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Thomas Hobbes

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Cowper, William

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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

21.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

Revson, Charles

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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 only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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 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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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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Never lose hope.

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ouida

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Barack Obama

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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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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Luther, Martin