Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

Anna Lappe

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Ruckett

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

Euripides

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Rossetti, Christina

11.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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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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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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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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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

17.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

18.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

William Walsh

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

22.

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

Kerr, Jean

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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 necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

George W. Bush

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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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

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Never lose hope.

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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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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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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Cowley, Abraham

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

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