Motivational Quotes

Hope

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Hope

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Cowper, William

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

Arnold, Matthew

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

Never lose hope.

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

Ovid

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes

10.

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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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Borland, Hal

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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 necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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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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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

William Shakespeare

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, French

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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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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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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

37.

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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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Euripides

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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.

41.

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

Ruckett

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

William Walsh

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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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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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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Epictetus

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

Hazlitt, William

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.