Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Rice, Wallace

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Cohen, Leonard

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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 only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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

Cowper, William

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

Arnold, Matthew

10.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

11.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

12.

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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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

14.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

George W. Bush

17.

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

18.

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

Ovid

19.

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

Proverb, French

20.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

21.

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

Epictetus

24.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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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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.

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

31.

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

32.

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

William Walsh

33.

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

Borland, Hal

34.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

Luther, Martin

36.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

37.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

38.

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

Kerr, Jean

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Kant, Immanuel

41.

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

Euripides

42.

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

Proverb, Arabian

43.

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

Jackson, Jesse

44.

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

Melville, Herman

45.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

47.

Never lose hope.

48.

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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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