Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Hope

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Revson, Charles

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

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

George W. Bush

10.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

11.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

12.

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

13.

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

Kant, Immanuel

14.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

15.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

16.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Henley, Don

22.

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

Proverb, Arabian

23.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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

30.

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

Cohen, Leonard

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

32.

Never lose hope.

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

35.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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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

39.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

40.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

42.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

43.

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

Cowley, Abraham

44.

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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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.