Motivational Quotes

Hope

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

- Ruckett

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

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

Ovid

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

Channing, William Ellery

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

12.

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

13.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

15.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

16.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

17.

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

Rice, Wallace

18.

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

Melville, Herman

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

Ouida

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

Fuller, Thomas

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

23.

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

George W. Bush

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

25.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

26.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

27.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

28.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

29.

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

Euripides

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

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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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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

33.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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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

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Cohen, Leonard

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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 waking man.

Aristotle

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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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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.

43.

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

William Walsh

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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

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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.