Motivational Quotes

Hope

My only hope lies in my despair.

- Racine, Jean

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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.

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

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

Hazlitt, William

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cohen, Leonard

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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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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

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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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

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Euripides

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

Revson, Charles

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

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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

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Hope is a good thing but not if you depend on it solely.

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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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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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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

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

Ovid

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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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.

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

Proverb, French

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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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 necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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