Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Ovid

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Rohn, Jim

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

Luther, Martin

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

11.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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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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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes

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

Proverb, French

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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 the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Borland, Hal

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

25.

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

Kerr, Jean

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Rice, Wallace

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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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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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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 a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

George W. Bush

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

Ouida

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

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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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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

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

Euripides

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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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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.