Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cowper, William

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

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Revson, Charles

10.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

11.

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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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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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

15.

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

George W. Bush

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

Kerr, Jean

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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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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

20.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Ouida

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

23.

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

Euripides

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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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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Arnold, Matthew

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

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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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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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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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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