Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Epictetus

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

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

10.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

Anna Lappe

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

15.

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

Luther, Martin

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

George W. Bush

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

20.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

21.

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

Thomas Hobbes

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Cowper, William

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

Rohn, Jim

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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.

32.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Fuller, Thomas

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Never lose hope.

35.

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

36.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Ouida

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

William Shakespeare

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Euripides

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.