Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Melville, Herman

Best Quotes about Hope

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Henley, Don

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

11.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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

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

William Walsh

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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Never lose hope.

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

Euripides

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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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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

27.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Rice, Wallace

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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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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Proverb, French

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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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

37.

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

Ouida

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