Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- William Walsh

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes

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

William Shakespeare

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Borland, Hal

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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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

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

Nash, Ogden

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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My only hope lies in my despair.

Racine, Jean

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

Proverb, French

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Ovid

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Hope is the parent of faith.

Bartol, Cyrus A.

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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

Cohen, Leonard

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Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)