Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

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

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Luther, Martin

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

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

Proverb, French

10.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hazlitt, William

11.

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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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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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

18.

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

Kerr, Jean

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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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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

George W. Bush

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

26.

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

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

30.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

32.

Never lose hope.

33.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

34.

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

Euripides

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ouida

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Nash, Ogden

42.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

43.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

45.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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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

48.

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

49.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Cohen, Leonard

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew