Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.

Proverb, Arabian

From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Channing, William Ellery

10.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

11.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

12.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

16.

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

Jackson, Jesse

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

22.

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

25.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

Ouida

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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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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

31.

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

Kerr, Jean

32.

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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Ovid

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Walsh

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

Kant, Immanuel

47.

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 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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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Epictetus