Motivational Quotes

Hope

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Hope

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Seneca

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

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

Arnold, Matthew

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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.

My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, French

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

Borland, Hal

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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 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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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 parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Ouida

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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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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Euripides

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

Cohen, Leonard

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

Cowper, William

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.

Rice, Wallace

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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Never lose hope.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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 live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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