Motivational Quotes

Hope

My only hope lies in my despair.

- Racine, Jean

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, French

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ouida

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...

Rossetti, Christina

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

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

William Walsh

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

Hazlitt, William

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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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

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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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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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Cowper, William

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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

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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 is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Euripides

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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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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Thomas Hobbes

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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