Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Cowper, William

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

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

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

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

10.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Luther, Martin

11.

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

12.

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

Borland, Hal

13.

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

Cowley, Abraham

14.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

15.

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

Rice, Wallace

16.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

17.

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

18.

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

Cohen, Leonard

19.

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

Proverb, Arabian

20.

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

Melville, Herman

21.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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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

25.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

26.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

27.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Ouida

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

Ovid

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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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

35.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

37.

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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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

39.

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

Kerr, Jean

40.

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

George W. Bush

42.

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

43.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Rossetti, Christina

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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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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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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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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Euripides