Motivational Quotes

Hope

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

Best Quotes about Hope

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Proverb, Italian

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Thomas Hobbes

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

Quit not certainty for hope.

Proverb

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

10.

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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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.

Virgil

12.

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 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 safest hope is in heaven.

Motto

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

Rohn, Jim

16.

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

Kerr, Jean

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Prior, Matthew

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Rice, Wallace

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History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

George W. Bush

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Ouida

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We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Barack Obama

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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, 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

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Our hopes are but memories reversed.

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

William Shakespeare

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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.

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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 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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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Proverb, English

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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.