Motivational Quotes

Hope

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Hope

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.

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

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

William Walsh

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Cowper, William

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Jackson, Jesse

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rossetti, Christina

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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

11.

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

Euripides

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Rice, Wallace

15.

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

Proverb, French

16.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hazlitt, William

17.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Cowley, Abraham

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

Nash, Ogden

20.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

21.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

26.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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

George W. Bush

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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

30.

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

Channing, William Ellery

31.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

34.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

Luther, Martin

43.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

44.

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

Kant, Immanuel

45.

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

Kerr, Jean

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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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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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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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