Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Revson, Charles

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

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

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Never lose 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.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Henley, Don

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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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

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

George W. Bush

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cowley, Abraham

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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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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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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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 is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Melville, Herman

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

Euripides

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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