Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- William Walsh

Best Quotes about Hope

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

William Shakespeare

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

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.

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 thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

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

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

10.

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

Revson, Charles

11.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

12.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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

14.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Jackson, Jesse

15.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Euripides

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

19.

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, French

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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

25.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

26.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

27.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

28.

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

Cohen, Leonard

29.

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

Kerr, Jean

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

32.

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

Luther, Martin

33.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

34.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

35.

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 lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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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 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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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

41.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Borland, Hal

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