Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Hope

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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

2.

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

Proverb, Arabian

3.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Henley, Don

4.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

5.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

6.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

8.

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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

11.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

12.

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

13.

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

Euripides

14.

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

15.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

16.

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

Kant, Immanuel

17.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

20.

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

Borland, Hal

21.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

22.

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

Revson, Charles

23.

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

Cowper, William

24.

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

Proverb, French

25.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

26.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

28.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

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

Epictetus

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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

31.

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

William Walsh

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

George W. Bush

34.

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

Ruckett

35.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

36.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

37.

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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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

39.

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

Melville, Herman

40.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

41.

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

42.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.