Motivational Quotes

Hope

My only hope lies in my despair.

- Racine, Jean

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...

Rossetti, Christina

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

Luther, Martin

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

Euripides

He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

William Shakespeare

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.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rice, Wallace

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

Ovid

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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

Revson, Charles

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Carver, George Washington

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

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

Channing, William Ellery

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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Never lose hope.

45.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

46.

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

Cohen, Leonard

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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 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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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 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