Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Euripides

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 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

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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Never lose hope.

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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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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

George W. Bush

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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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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Proverb, French

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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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 is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

William Walsh

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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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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 all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Melville, Herman

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Borland, Hal

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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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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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

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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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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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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Rossetti, Christina

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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 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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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