Motivational Quotes

Hope

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Proverb, French

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

William Walsh

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Thomas Hobbes

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

10.

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

11.

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

Melville, Herman

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

George W. Bush

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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.

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

19.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

20.

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Cowper, William

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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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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Borland, Hal

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

40.

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

Epictetus

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

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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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 on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Revson, Charles

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

William Shakespeare

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin