Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Epictetus

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

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

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

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

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

Rice, Wallace

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

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Proverb, French

10.

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

Cowper, William

11.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

Channing, William Ellery

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

George W. Bush

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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, 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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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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Never lose hope.

20.

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

Ovid

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Cohen, Leonard

23.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

William Walsh

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Euripides

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Luther, Martin

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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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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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.