Motivational Quotes

Hope

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Henley, Don

10.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

11.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Cowper, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

William Walsh

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

22.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Never lose hope.

33.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Rice, Wallace

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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

43.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Marden, Orison Swett

45.

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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Cohen, Leonard

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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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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