Motivational Quotes

Hope

Quit not certainty for hope.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Hope

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

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.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Euripides

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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

11.

Never lose hope.

12.

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

13.

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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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

15.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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

20.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

Proverb, French

23.

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

Luther, Martin

24.

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

Proverb, Arabian

25.

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

Ovid

26.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

27.

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

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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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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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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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

32.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

33.

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

William Walsh

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

36.

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

Nash, Ogden

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

38.

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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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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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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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

49.

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

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

Cohen, Leonard