Motivational Quotes

Hope

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Best Quotes about Hope

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

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.

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

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

Ovid

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

George W. Bush

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

Borland, Hal

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cohen, Leonard

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

13.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

14.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

15.

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

Hazlitt, William

16.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

17.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

18.

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

19.

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

Euripides

20.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

21.

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

22.

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

Kant, Immanuel

23.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

24.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

Channing, William Ellery

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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

28.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

29.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

32.

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

33.

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

34.

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

Kerr, Jean

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

37.

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

Cowley, Abraham

38.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

39.

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

William Walsh

40.

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

41.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

42.

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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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

44.

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

45.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Ouida

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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 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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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, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.

Rice, Wallace

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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