Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Ovid

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Thomas Hobbes

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

Kerr, Jean

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

William Walsh

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

Euripides

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

Cowper, William

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

Epictetus

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Never lose hope.

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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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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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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Henley, Don

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

Borland, Hal

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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

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Revson, Charles

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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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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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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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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 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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Luther, Martin

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.