Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

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Best Quotes about Hope

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

Revson, Charles

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Kant, Immanuel

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

10.

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

Borland, Hal

11.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

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

Nash, Ogden

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

15.

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

Luther, Martin

17.

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

Rice, Wallace

18.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Rossetti, Christina

22.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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Never lose hope.

24.

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

25.

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

Kerr, Jean

27.

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

28.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

29.

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

Thomas Hobbes

30.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

31.

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

Euripides

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

George W. Bush

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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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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.

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

Ouida

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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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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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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

43.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Ovid

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.