Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

10.

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

11.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

12.

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

13.

The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.

Goldsmith, Oliver

14.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

17.

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

18.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

20.

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

21.

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

Kerr, Jean

22.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

24.

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

Cowper, William

26.

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

Rossetti, Christina

27.

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

William Walsh

28.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

29.

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

Euripides

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

32.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

33.

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

Proverb, French

34.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

35.

Never lose hope.

36.

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

Proverb, Arabian

37.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Nash, Ogden

39.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

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

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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

42.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

43.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

44.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

45.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

46.

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

Epictetus

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

Cohen, Leonard

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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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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson