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

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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.

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

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

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

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

William Walsh

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Proverb, French

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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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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Borland, Hal

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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Cowper, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Melville, Herman

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Euripides

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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.

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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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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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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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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Revson, Charles