Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Kerr, Jean

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

William Walsh

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

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

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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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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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 parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Cowper, William

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb, French

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

Rossetti, Christina

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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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Never lose hope.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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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

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Ouida

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

Ovid

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

Revson, Charles

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

Thomas Hobbes

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

George W. Bush

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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.

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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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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Borland, Hal