Motivational Quotes

Hope

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Cowper, William

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

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ouida

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

12.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

13.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

14.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

15.

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

Borland, Hal

16.

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

Epictetus

17.

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

Kant, Immanuel

18.

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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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

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

23.

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

Ovid

24.

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

25.

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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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

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

28.

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

Revson, Charles

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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

30.

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

31.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

32.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

33.

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

Proverb, Arabian

34.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

35.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

36.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Never lose hope.

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

Nash, Ogden

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

41.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

42.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Luther, Martin

45.

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

Thomas Hobbes

46.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Cohen, Leonard

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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