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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Ovid

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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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Hope is the parent of faith.

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

Proverb, French

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Thomas Hobbes

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

Cohen, Leonard

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Borland, Hal

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

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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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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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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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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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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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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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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Revson, Charles