Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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.

The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Borland, Hal

10.

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

11.

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

12.

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

Ovid

13.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cohen, Leonard

17.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

18.

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

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

23.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

24.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Rohn, Jim

27.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

28.

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.

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

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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 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

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

34.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Cowper, William

40.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Angelou, Maya

41.

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

Revson, Charles

42.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

43.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

44.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Proverb, French

48.

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

Ouida

49.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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

Cowley, Abraham