Motivational Quotes

Hope

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

- Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Borland, Hal

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

Rice, Wallace

10.

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

Revson, Charles

11.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

14.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

15.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.

Anne Lamott

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Nash, Ogden

27.

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

Proverb, French

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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

29.

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

30.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

31.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Ouida

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

39.

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

George W. Bush

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The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.

Goldsmith, Oliver

44.

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

Luther, Martin

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

William Walsh

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

Euripides

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson