Quotes about hope

"Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive."

Jackson, Jesse on hope
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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 on hope
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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

Johnson, Samuel on hope
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"Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment."

Johnson, Samuel on hope   

"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment."

Johnson, Samuel on hope
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"Amateurs hope, professionals work."

Kanin, Garson on hope
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"What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?"

Kant, Immanuel on hope   

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

Kerr, Jean on hope
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hope
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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 on hope
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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 on hope
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"Hope and fear are inseparable."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on hope
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"Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on hope
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"With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured."

Lincoln, Abraham on hope   

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

Luther, Martin on hope   

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

Marden, Orison Swett on hope
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"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."

Melville, Herman on hope
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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 on hope
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"Where no hope is left, is left no fear."

Milton, John on hope
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"Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow."

Moodie, Susanna on hope   

"The safest hope is in heaven."

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

Nash, Ogden on hope
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"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness."

Nobel, Alfred on hope
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"He who does not hope to win has already lost."

Olmedo, Jose Joaquin on hope
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"Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey."

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

Ovid on hope
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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 on hope   

"Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake."

Prior, Matthew on hope
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"Quit not certainty for hope."

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"A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day."

Proverb on hope
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"He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything."

Proverb, Arabian on hope
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"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."

Proverb, English on hope
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"He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot."

Proverb, French on hope
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"Hope is the dream of a soul awake."

Proverb, French on hope
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"He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope."

Proverb, Italian on hope
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"Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy."

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"Were it not for hope the heart would break."

Proverb, Scottish on hope
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"My only hope lies in my despair."

Racine, Jean on hope   

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

Revson, Charles on hope
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