Motivational Quotes

Hope

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

- Carver, George Washington

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Channing, William Ellery

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 struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Melville, Herman

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Ovid

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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

10.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

11.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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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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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

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Euripides

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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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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

23.

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Cowper, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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

Revson, 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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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Borland, Hal

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

Nash, Ogden

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