Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

George W. Bush

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

Revson, Charles

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

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

10.

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

Luther, Martin

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Never lose hope.

14.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

15.

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

Ovid

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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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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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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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

20.

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

Ouida

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

Nash, Ogden

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Melville, Herman

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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

29.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

31.

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

Rice, Wallace

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

36.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Euripides

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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Kerr, Jean

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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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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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

45.

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Borland, Hal