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

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

George W. Bush

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

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

Ovid

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

Ouida

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

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

Epictetus

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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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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Cohen, Leonard

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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 is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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.

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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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 on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Nash, Ogden

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.