Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is necessary in every condition.

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Hope

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

William Walsh

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 on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Never lose hope.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Ouida

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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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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 a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

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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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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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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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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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