Motivational Quotes

Hope

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hazlitt, William

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

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

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Rohn, Jim

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Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Rice, Wallace

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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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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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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Borland, Hal

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Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

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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.

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

Cowper, William

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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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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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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

26.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Kanin, Garson

27.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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

Cohen, Leonard

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From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, French

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Melville, Herman

39.

The safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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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 a good breakfast but a bad supper.

Bacon, Francis

42.

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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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

44.

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

Kerr, Jean

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

Epictetus

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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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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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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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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