Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Cohen, Leonard

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Melville, Herman

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Ovid

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

Revson, Charles

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

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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

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

Thomas Hobbes

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Euripides

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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.

18.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Ouida

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Proverb, Arabian

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.

Rice, Wallace

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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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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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

Epictetus

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 the sick, while there is life there is hope.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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