Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

William Shakespeare

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

10.

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

Proverb, French

11.

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

12.

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

Ovid

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

George W. Bush

16.

Hope is a good thing but not if you depend on it solely.

17.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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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

21.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

22.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

26.

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

Kerr, Jean

27.

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

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

30.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Luther, Martin

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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

33.

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Borland, Hal

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

37.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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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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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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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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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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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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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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Quit not certainty for hope.