Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Revson, Charles

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Nash, Ogden

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

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

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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 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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kerr, Jean

10.

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

Henley, Don

11.

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

12.

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

Melville, Herman

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

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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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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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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

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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

18.

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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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

20.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

22.

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

Thomas Hobbes

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

24.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Epictetus

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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

Channing, William Ellery

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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

30.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

Euripides

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

34.

Never lose hope.

35.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Borland, Hal

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Revson, Charles

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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 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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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, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.

Rice, Wallace

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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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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.

46.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ovid

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Quit not certainty for hope.