Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Euripides

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

Arnold, Matthew

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

Anna Lappe

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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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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, French

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Melville, Herman

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

Rice, Wallace

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

William Walsh

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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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

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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Never lose hope.

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

George W. Bush

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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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