Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Hope

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Epictetus

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

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

Henley, Don

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Luther, Martin

10.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

11.

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

William Walsh

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

14.

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

15.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

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

Arnold, Matthew

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

20.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

21.

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

22.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

23.

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

Kerr, Jean

24.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

25.

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

Euripides

26.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

27.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

28.

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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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

30.

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

Kant, Immanuel

31.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

32.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Jackson, Jesse

33.

Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May -- how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Proverb, French

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

Borland, Hal

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

42.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Cowper, William

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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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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Fuller, Thomas

49.

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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My only hope lies in my despair.