Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

William Shakespeare

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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 dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

13.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

14.

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

William Walsh

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Rice, Wallace

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

18.

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

19.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

20.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

24.

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

Kerr, Jean

25.

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

Ovid

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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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

28.

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

Proverb, French

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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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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

32.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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 lose hope.

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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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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out.

Becker, May L.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Cowper, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.