Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

George W. Bush

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hazlitt, William

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 the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Cowper, William

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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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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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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

Epictetus

40.

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

Ovid

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Euripides

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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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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Cohen, Leonard

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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes