Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Revson, Charles

Best Quotes about Hope

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

Revson, Charles

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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 the sick, while there is life there is hope.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Thomas Hobbes

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

11.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

George W. Bush

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

Borland, Hal

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Never lose hope.

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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 the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Euripides

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

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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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 is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Fuller, Thomas

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Cowper, William

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

Rohn, Jim

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Ovid

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

Ouida

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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

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

43.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.