Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is necessary in every condition.

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Hope

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

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

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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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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Never lose hope.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Melville, Herman

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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 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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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Rossetti, Christina

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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

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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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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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Ouida

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Proverb, French

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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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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn.

Borland, Hal

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History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

George W. Bush

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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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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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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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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 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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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