Motivational Quotes

Hope

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.

Best Quotes about Hope

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.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Kerr, Jean

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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

Cowper, William

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

11.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

16.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Ouida

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

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

Never lose hope.

23.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Borland, Hal

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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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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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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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 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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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Proverb, French

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Euripides

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

Epictetus

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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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 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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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

47.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.