Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Hope

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

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

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Borland, Hal

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

Revson, Charles

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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 thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

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Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.

Rice, Wallace

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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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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Ovid

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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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 for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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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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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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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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Quit not certainty for hope.