Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Thomas Hobbes

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.

Rice, Wallace

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Luther, Martin

12.

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

Ouida

13.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

14.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Kant, Immanuel

18.

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

Rossetti, Christina

19.

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

Rohn, Jim

20.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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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

23.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

24.

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.

25.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

26.

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

Cowper, William

27.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

28.

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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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

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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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

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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 the sick, while there is life there is hope.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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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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 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

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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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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

40.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

41.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

42.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

48.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

49.

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

Euripides

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil