Motivational Quotes

Hope

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

- Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Best Quotes about Hope

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Ouida

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

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

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

Revson, Charles

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Melville, Herman

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Henley, Don

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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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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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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Amateurs hope, professionals work.