Motivational Quotes

Hope

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

Never lose hope.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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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

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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Luther, Martin

16.

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

Revson, Charles

17.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

18.

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

George W. Bush

19.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

20.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

21.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

22.

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.

23.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

24.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

26.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

27.

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.

28.

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

Ruckett

29.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Nash, Ogden

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

34.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

35.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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

38.

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

Proverb, Arabian

39.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

40.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Borland, Hal

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

Kerr, Jean

44.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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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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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

47.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

48.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

49.

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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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis