Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Melville, Herman

Best Quotes about Hope

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

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

William Shakespeare

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Revson, Charles

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

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

Rossetti, Christina

12.

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

Arnold, Matthew

13.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

14.

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

Ovid

15.

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

Melville, Herman

16.

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

Euripides

17.

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

Borland, Hal

18.

Never lose hope.

19.

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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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

24.

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

Cohen, Leonard

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

27.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

28.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Rice, Wallace

32.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

33.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

34.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

35.

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

36.

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

Ruckett

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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

39.

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 for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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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

42.

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

Thomas Hobbes

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