Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jackson, Jesse

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Kerr, Jean

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

George W. Bush

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

Ovid

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Melville, Herman

10.

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

11.

The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.

Cowper, William

12.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

13.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Epictetus

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

18.

He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

22.

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

Proverb, French

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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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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

25.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

27.

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

28.

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

Cohen, Leonard

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

30.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

34.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Nash, Ogden

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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 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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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 safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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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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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Never lose hope.

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

Revson, Charles

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Borland, Hal

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.