Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Hope

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

Nash, Ogden

Hope is necessary in every condition.

Samuel Johnson

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

10.

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

11.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Rice, Wallace

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The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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Hope is the dream of a soul awake.

Proverb, French

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.

Sawyer, Charles

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

Ouida

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

Proverb, French

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

Ovid

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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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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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Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Henley, Don

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Kant, Immanuel

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He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

Proverb, Italian

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A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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

William Walsh

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

Revson, Charles

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

Rossetti, Christina

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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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Never lose hope.

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

Cowper, William

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

Goldsmith, Oliver