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

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Cowper, William

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

Fuller, Thomas

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Kerr, Jean

19.

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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Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Channing, William Ellery

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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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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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 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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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 gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Ovid

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

Borland, Hal

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

William Walsh

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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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