Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Borland, Hal

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

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

Rice, Wallace

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

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Ouida

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

Ovid

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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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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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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Kerr, Jean

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Thomas Hobbes

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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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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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