Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Hope

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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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 only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Borland, Hal

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

Revson, Charles

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With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

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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

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

George W. Bush

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

Rohn, Jim

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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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

Proverb, French

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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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Never lose hope.

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Cowper, William

33.

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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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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

Nash, Ogden

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Kerr, Jean

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Walsh

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

Channing, William Ellery

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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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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