Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is a good thing but not if you depend on it solely.

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Best Quotes about Hope

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, French

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

Euripides

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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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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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

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

William Walsh

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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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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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Never lose hope.

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Revson, Charles

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

George W. Bush

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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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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 a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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 is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Cowper, William

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Rice, Wallace

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.