Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Hope

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

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

Rice, Wallace

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Henley, Don

10.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

11.

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

Epictetus

12.

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.

13.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

14.

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

Proverb, Arabian

15.

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

16.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Ovid

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

Ouida

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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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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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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

24.

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

Melville, Herman

25.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

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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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

29.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

30.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

31.

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

32.

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

Nash, Ogden

33.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

34.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

George W. Bush

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Cowley, Abraham

38.

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

Cowper, William

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

Euripides

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

William Walsh

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Borland, Hal

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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

49.

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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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