Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

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

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

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

William Walsh

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

George W. Bush

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

Cohen, Leonard

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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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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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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Cowper, William

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Rice, Wallace

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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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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Melville, Herman

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

Ouida

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Revson, Charles

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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 like a hairball trembling from its birth...

Rossetti, Christina

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Hope is only the love of life.