Motivational Quotes

Hope

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.

Best Quotes about Hope

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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Cowper, William

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Cohen, Leonard

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Ovid

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

Revson, Charles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Borland, Hal

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

George W. Bush

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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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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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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Never lose hope.

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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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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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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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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Kerr, Jean

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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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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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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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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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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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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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