Motivational Quotes

Hope

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

- Kanin, Garson

Best Quotes about Hope

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

George W. Bush

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

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

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Hazlitt, William

16.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Thomas Hobbes

19.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

20.

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

Cowper, William

22.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

25.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

26.

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

Ruckett

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Kerr, Jean

29.

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

30.

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

Ouida

31.

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

32.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Euripides

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

39.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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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.

41.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

44.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Kant, Immanuel

45.

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

Proverb, French

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Melville, Herman

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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

William Walsh