Hope Quotations

Unknown Author

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When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."

- Unknown Author

Hope is grief's best music.

- Unknown Author

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.

- Unknown Author

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.

- Unknown Author

You've gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less.

- Unknown Author

Pearl S. Buck

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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

- Pearl S. Buck

Norman Cousins

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Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

- Norman Cousins

Emily Dickinson

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Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all.

- Emily Dickinson

Benjamin Franklin

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

- Benjamin Franklin

Eric Hoffer

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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

- Eric Hoffer

Victor Hugo

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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

- Victor Hugo

Robert Greene Ingersoll

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Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

- Robert Greene Ingersoll

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

- Robert Greene Ingersoll

Samuel Johnson

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Hope itself is 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.

- Samuel Johnson

Anne Lamott

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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.

- Anne Lamott

Mignon McLaughlin

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Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

- Mignon McLaughlin

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Ouida

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

- Ouida

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Tertullian

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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

- Tertullian

Mark Twain

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Lord save us all from... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

- Mark Twain

Vauvenargues

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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

- Vauvenargues

Lin Yutang

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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

- Lin Yutang