Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Rohn, Jim

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Cohen, Leonard

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

William Shakespeare

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Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

Anna Lappe

11.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Proverb, French

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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

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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

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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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Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...

Rossetti, Christina

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

Rice, Wallace

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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

19.

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

Thomas Hobbes

20.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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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.

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Epictetus

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It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

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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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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 dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

34.

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

Nash, Ogden

35.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

41.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

42.

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

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

45.

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

Cowper, William

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

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