Motivational Quotes

Hope

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

- Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Best Quotes about Hope

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

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

Cowper, William

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Ruckett

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Borland, Hal

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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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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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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

William Walsh

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Never lose hope.

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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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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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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Kant, Immanuel

38.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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