Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Hope

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Ciardi, John

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

Luther, Martin

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

Euripides

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Arabian

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

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

Epictetus

10.

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

Cowper, William

11.

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

12.

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

Ovid

13.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

14.

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

Melville, Herman

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

Rossetti, Christina

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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 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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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Cohen, Leonard

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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, 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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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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

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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

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

Borland, Hal

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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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 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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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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

Ouida

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

47.

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

48.

Never lose hope.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Ingersoll, Robert Green