Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.

- Rice, Wallace

Best Quotes about Hope

Never lose hope.

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

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

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Rossetti, Christina

10.

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

Borland, Hal

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

Ouida

12.

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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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

15.

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

16.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

18.

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

Luther, Martin

19.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

20.

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

21.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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

24.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

25.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

26.

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

Proverb, French

27.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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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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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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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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

34.

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

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.

Rice, Wallace

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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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.