Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- William Walsh

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Melville, Herman

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

George W. Bush

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

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

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

Borland, Hal

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

10.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

13.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Ouida

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

Luther, Martin

16.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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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

26.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

William Walsh

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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 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 safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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

32.

Never lose hope.

33.

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Jackson, Jesse

39.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

44.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Euripides

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Ovid

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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