Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- William Walsh

Best Quotes about Hope

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, French

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thomas Hobbes

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Ovid

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

Revson, Charles

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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

Ouida

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Borland, Hal

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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 is like a hairball trembling from its birth...

Rossetti, Christina

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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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 safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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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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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

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Euripides

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

William Shakespeare

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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.