Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Thomas Hobbes

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

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

Cowper, William

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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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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

15.

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

Proverb, French

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

19.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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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 only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Borland, Hal

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Rohn, Jim

35.

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

Henley, Don

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

Revson, Charles

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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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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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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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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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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Ouida

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

Fuller, Thomas