Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Henley, Don

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

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

William Walsh

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

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Revson, Charles

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Ouida

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Borland, Hal

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

Euripides

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Thomas Hobbes

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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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 is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Rohn, Jim

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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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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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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The safest hope is in heaven.