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

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Euripides

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

10.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

William Walsh

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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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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

William Shakespeare

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Borland, Hal

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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

Rice, Wallace

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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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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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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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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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'.