Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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.

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

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

William Walsh

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

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

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 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 only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Ouida

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hazlitt, William

15.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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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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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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

19.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

20.

Never lose hope.

21.

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

Nash, Ogden

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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 the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

25.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

26.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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.

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

Cohen, Leonard

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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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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 a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Thomas Hobbes

34.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

36.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

37.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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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

40.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, French

42.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Cowper, William

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Hope is only the love of life.