Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Revson, Charles

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Fuller, Thomas

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

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

Kant, Immanuel

11.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

12.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

13.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

15.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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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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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

18.

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

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

20.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

21.

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

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

Arnold, Matthew

24.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

25.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.

27.

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

Ruckett

28.

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

Melville, Herman

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

Cohen, Leonard

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

31.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

32.

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Euripides

36.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Borland, Hal

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

Ovid

40.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

George W. Bush

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Epictetus

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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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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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil