Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

William Walsh

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Thomas Hobbes

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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

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

21.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

22.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

23.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

Ouida

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

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

29.

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

Borland, Hal

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

Melville, Herman

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

Cowper, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, French

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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.