Motivational Quotes

Hope

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

- Thomas Hobbes

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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.

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

Cowper, William

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.

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

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

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

10.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

11.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

12.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

13.

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

14.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

15.

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

Kerr, Jean

16.

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

Euripides

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Nash, Ogden

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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 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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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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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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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

30.

Never lose hope.

31.

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

32.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Kant, Immanuel

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Ruckett

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

43.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

44.

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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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

46.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Epictetus

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Quit not certainty for hope.