Motivational Quotes

Hope

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Euripides

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Nash, Ogden

11.

Never lose hope.

12.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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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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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Ouida

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

Melville, Herman

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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

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

George W. Bush

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

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

William Walsh

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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

39.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Arnold, Matthew

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