Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Kant, Immanuel

10.

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

11.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

13.

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

Ovid

14.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

15.

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

16.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

18.

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

Henley, Don

19.

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

Revson, Charles

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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

21.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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 thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

25.

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

26.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Luther, Martin

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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 hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out.

Becker, May L.

29.

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

Kerr, Jean

30.

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

Euripides

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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

32.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

33.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

34.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

35.

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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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Melville, Herman

39.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Borland, Hal

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

Proverb, French

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.