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 our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Luther, Martin

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kant, Immanuel

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Henley, Don

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

Melville, Herman

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

Ovid

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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.

11.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Revson, Charles

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

19.

Never lose hope.

20.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Proverb, French

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

Rossetti, Christina

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

29.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

30.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Ouida

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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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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May -- how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Kerr, Jean

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

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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