Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Rice, Wallace

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Euripides

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

Cowper, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Arnold, Matthew

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

William Shakespeare

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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Epictetus

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Proverb, Arabian

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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

Cohen, Leonard

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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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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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Quit not certainty for hope.