Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

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Best Quotes about Hope

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

Rohn, Jim

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Henley, Don

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Ouida

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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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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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kerr, Jean

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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 like a hairball trembling from its birth...

Rossetti, Christina

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Borland, Hal

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Never lose hope.

29.

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

Proverb, French

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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Thomas Hobbes

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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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 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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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Angelou, Maya

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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