Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Hope

1.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

2.

Never lose hope.

3.

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 only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

Proverb, French

8.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

9.

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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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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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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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Cowper, William

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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 good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Melville, Herman

28.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

29.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

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

Ouida

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Borland, Hal

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

William Walsh

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

Epictetus

40.

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.

41.

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

Ovid

44.

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

Revson, Charles

45.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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Our hopes are but memories reversed.