Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Hope

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

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

Ovid

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

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

George W. Bush

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

Rohn, Jim

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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.

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

William Shakespeare

Never lose hope.

10.

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

Epictetus

11.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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 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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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

15.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

16.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

William Walsh

18.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

19.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

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

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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

28.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Revson, Charles

34.

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Ouida

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ruckett

43.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

44.

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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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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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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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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