Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Borland, Hal

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Henley, Don

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Arnold, Matthew

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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.

10.

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

Revson, Charles

11.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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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.

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

Borland, Hal

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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 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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

18.

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

Proverb, French

19.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

22.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

28.

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

Epictetus

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

35.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

39.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Arabian

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