Hopeful And Encouraging Quotes

There were ghosts in the wind, whispers from the snow or the invisible meltwater flowing beneath. ~ Rich Shapero

Don't let the obstacles that stand on your ways towards achieving your goals ever stop you from pushing forward. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

YOUR DREAMS WANT YOU. YOUR DREAMS LOVE YOU AS MUCH AS YOU LOVE IT. ~ Diana Rose Morcilla

Eve still marveled on a daily basis at the speed with which her own life had changed. A year ago, she'd been lost and flailing, and now she was found. She wanted to call it a miracle, but it was simpler than that, and a lot more ordinary; she'd met a kind and decent man who loved her. ~ Tom Perrotta

Get out of bed. Go to classes. Try to be normal, and pretty soon all that grief you carry...it gets easier. ~ Kristan Higgins

Each of us has his place in the world " he said. "If we cannot serve in one way there is always another. If we do what we are able a door always opens to something else. ~ Marguerite De Angeli

You can choose to stay strong and keep moving on or you can run, and in the end still make a U-turn.. ~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth. ~ Martina Boone

God's help is available for us to achieve great things. We must put our hope and trust in the Lord. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There's no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars. ~ Carrie Hope Fletcher

Life is unpredictable.But do not allow the difficulties of day-to-day to deprive you of your confidence and hope. Never allow life's disappointments to get you down. Get up any time you fall. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Invite hope to the start of each day. ~ Wylie R. Weeks

The hope for our future blooms in the heart of every child. ~ Marie Cornelio

Hope is an anchor. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everyday fall in love with being alive ~ Mimi Novic

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

When life leaves you broken, wounded, and shattered, hope will give you strength to face another day. ~ Marie Cornelio

Smile even though you have nothing to celebrate. Celebrate the fact that you can smile. Some people don't have nearly half of what you have and they are smiling just because they can. ~ Germany Kent

The children are the future, so, let's tell them about tomorrow's hope rather than yesterday's despair. ~ Onyi Anyado

Life is filled with endless hope. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Somewhere in the heavens, she pictured her mother and father rejoicing, happy she and Michael had found their way back to one another. ~ Susan Lower

My life changed when I quit believing in what I was taught and started living what I learned. ~ Angie Corbett-Kuiper

Darkness is part of this life, but so is light. ~ Millie Florence

Feeling hopeless? But are you even there yet? ~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

Hope is the confidence of brighter tomorrows. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To be honest and real makes us vulnerable, but it also makes us honest and real. ~ Tom Althouse

Some words echo within ones heart the memory of our promise to truly live the life we have been granted by the Divine. ~ Mimi Novic

Relax,Refreshed! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our infinitesimal hopes should survive longer than our vast disappointments ~ Munia Khan

In the dark, there is silence but in the light there is warmth. ~ Sonya Watson

We all remember the ones who touched our heart so deeply,
That our heartbeats began to dance and reminded us to live once again. ~ Mimi Novic

Sometimes my dream seems the stupidest thing in the world. Sometimes it is a secret treasure in my pocket ~ Anya Parrish

I knew people would kill to be able to eat whatever they wanted and not gain an ounce- but it wasn't like it didn't irritate me. Maybe I wanted boobs. Waybe I wanted a little junk in my trunk. Maybe I didn't want old ladies to make comments at the grocery store about me starving myself. ~ Nicole Jacquelyn

Everyone has, at one time or another, experienced trauma related to family, children or business. This, in fact, represents a kind of maturity. Every trauma that you have experienced reminds you that nothing in this world is perfect or permanent. ~ Master Jun Hong Lu

Hope is a joyful soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Fear will paralyze you and prohibit growth ~ Michelle Cook-Hall

I've been married forever, and I still don't have it right. ~ Carol Feller

You said it to me once. It was the last day we had together. And that was 39 days ago. I can still hear your whisper loud as a horn in my ears, when you told me that you love me. This memory is so clear in my head, as if it were yesterday. Even though I am not sure how to describe your voice, how it sounds, these three words you said. I know. And I have to trust them. ~ D.S. Wrights

Every day something inside us dies because we do not have the courage to follow our dreams ~ Mimi Novic

There is always hope for the living.
Keep hope alive.
Never give in to fear. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing is ever so good that it can't stand a little revision, and nothing is ever so impossible and broken down that a try at fixing it is out of the question. ~ Rebecca Solnit

Every day is a new day to hope, dream and try again. ~ Heather Wolf

I wonder if we will become okay again. I hope for it. ~ Nina LaCour

We don't plan funerals till the body is dead. ~ Nilesh Rathod

There is always a hope for the living.
Life is worth living, no matter what situation you may have encounter.
No situations is permanent. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Let Go Of The People That Wound You. ~ Wesam Fawzi

Maybe there's no one right way to be a good person, and maybe there's no advisory board signing off on who does and doesn't deserve badges. ~ Hannah Paasch

Hope is strong trust in divine power. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Let the echo of your footsteps spark a ray of hope in the heart of the hopeless and appear as help to the helpless. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Hope is confidence. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dear Lord Wadsworth, esteemed Baron of Somerset,

I write to you under great duress. I cannot seem to properly ask to formally court your daughter and ought to be put out of my misery at once. Please send a vicious brood of vampire bats to dispatch me at your earliest convenience. It would clearly be an improvement over this letter…

Your daughter's hopeful yet stupid suitor,
Thomas ~ Kerri Maniscalco

The fact that....you categorize everything as either sexist, or racist, or homophobic, whether it is or not, and therefore harmful to you and you just can't take it, is a kind of mania, a delusion, a psychosis that we have been coddling, encouraging people to think that life should be a smooth utopia built only for them and their fragile sensibility. ~ Bret Easton Ellis

Someone else's laundry is already whipping around in the perennial wind that blows above the city: long white T-shirts dancing in the sun like captive angels. Sam finds a rack that is unoccupied and, with slow and firm movements, squeezes out her washload and hangs it up. she will check on their progress in a couple more hours.

She takes a shower and goes back to bed. The phone is ringing, a fragile hopeful sound. The eighth ring is cut off. Sam allows her mind a few fanciful arabesque before deciding it probably wasn't anyone she would want to talk to. She thinks with relief of how efficiently she has washed the boy and his treacherous molecules of his perspiration, his scent, his heat, his maleness, our of her clothing, out of the very fibers of her being.

There he goes, hello, good-bye, dissipating in the azure sky, bleached of all meaning by the sun and wind.

I live to do the laundry, she thinks, and smiles; she has not felt this clever in a long time. ~ Lakambini A. Sitoy

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose. ~ Theodore White

I tried to ignore it, but something about him radiated ultra-sweet and encouraging signals, like he wouldn't be bothered in the least if I jumped into his lap. ~ Inara Scott

It was over. He knew, but she did not. He could tell by the way she nuzzled him, how her body relaxed in his embrace, how she sighed when he kissed the top of her head. She was still hopeful, he thought, and that made her beautiful. Suddenly he could not bear to imagine a life without her. ~ S. Walden

My encounter with desperation while witnessing the death of a precious child changed me, teaching me that although we will have sad times, we can move on, chastened and changed but resilient and hopeful. Laurel showed me one way to live with hope as well as cancer as she thrived even when tumors grew within her small body. She exhibited how a child can push aside despair and appreciate as many moments as possible, to believe in the power of resurrection, both the human spirit and in a Biblical sense. ~ Brent Green

By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the controls, and by making actions illegal that are in the public interest, the controls undermine individual morality. ~ Milton Friedman

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come. ~ George Eliot

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset. ~ Tom Hopkins

Hope and faith are two intimate brothers; they always go together. Hope nourishes faith and faith treasures hope. ~ Sri Chinmoy

[Teaching] was hard. Some of the kids were needy and vulnerable and depressed, with faces of dubious, aged concern, rumpled foreheads, downcast or shuttered eyes. Some were wild. We did not exclude anyone, because Jesus didn't. On bad days, I could not imagine what he had been thinking. I could always feel Jesus in the room, encouraging us in every way, although maybe he would have stopped short of sharing Doritos with us. ~ Anne Lamott

No, I have slept enough, and I like looking outside. It makes me hopeful. There is nothing like God's sunshine to cheer you up. ~ Dorothy Clark

One of the very first things I figured out about life ... is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Through our struggles and pain, we are being offered perseverance, the character of God. Hardships are intended to give us a spiritual makeover, "that we may share in his holiness" (Heb. 12:10). Therefore, when God encourages us to persevere, he is not stumbling for encouraging words. He is teaching us how to look like him. ~ Edward T. Welch

We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference even if we do not see the positive results of our efforts ... We can never be too generous or too kind. ~ Marc Bekoff

A new buoyancy took over, the buoyancy of arrival. It brings with it a renewed sense of being that blossoms just before the end of a journey. No matter how long or tiring the journey, the bothersome bits are shelved and forgotten in those final minutes. Impending arrival shifts the traveller's mindset into hopeful optimism that a new and unexplored phase is about to begin. ~ Monisha Rajesh

Hope is an act of faith. Great faith, great hope. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I believe the quickest and most sure way to reduce poverty, raise living standards and create jobs around the world is to make economies and governments more open and free, thereby encouraging business and entrepreneurship. ~ Elliott Bisnow

For there is no joy in continuity, in the perpetual. We desire it only because the present is empty. A person who is trying to eat money is always hungry. When someone says, "Time to stop now!" he is in a panic because he has had nothing to eat yet, and wants more and more time to go on eating money, ever hopeful of satisfaction around the corner. We do not really want continuity, but rather a present experience of total happiness. The thought of wanting such an experience to go on and on is a result of being self-conscious in the experience, and thus incompletely aware of it. So long as there is the feeling of an "I" having this experience, the moment is not all. Eternal life is realized when the last trace of difference between "I" and "now" has vanished - when there is just this "now" and nothing else.
By contrast, hell or "everlasting damnation" is not the everlastingness of time going on forever, but of the unbroken circle, the continuity and frustration of going round and round in pursuit of something which can never be attained. Hell is the fatuity, the everlasting impossibility, of self-love, self-consciousness, and self-possession. It is trying to see one´s own eyes, hear one´s own ears, and kiss one´s own lips. ~ Alan W. Watts

The proper management of one's feelings clearly lies along a complex (and therefore not simple or easy) balanced middle path, requiring constant judgment and continuing adjustment. Here the owner treats his feelings (slaves) with respect, nurturing them with good food, shelter and medical care, listening and responding to their voices, encouraging them, inquiring as to their health, yet also organizing them, limiting them, deciding clearly between them, redirecting them and teaching them, all the while leaving no doubt as to who is the boss. This is the path of healthy self-discipline. ~ M. Scott Peck

See there," she said, pointing to my eyes. "Not the same color, but the same determination. And your lips, they have the same hopeful smile. I know you have your grandmother's coloring, but you're your mother's daughter, through and through. ~ Kiera Cass

She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.
And yet, because it could not be expressed in words, people had invented a word to express it, and that made Liesl feel hopeful, somehow. ~ Lauren Oliver

If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally, I feel that encouraging. Do you know what I'm getting at? ~ Haruki Murakami

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. ~ Emma Goldman

I can't help comparing [Courage], over and over, to his brother. Fear has a bright façade and dark insides; his horror and windy recklessness that carries millions over the plains with no hopes of ever stopping. And Courage… he's dark on the outside but carries a light within; he's calm and encouraging and his very breath is a soothing dash of water on a hot, hot day. ~ Kelsey Sutton

Reincarnation is a hopeful understanding of life. It is an accurate understanding of life. In each lifetime we grow, develop and evolve. ~ Frederick Lenz

I am Cuban, and yet, I am not. I don't know where I fit here, in the land of my grandparents, attempting to recreate a Cuba that no longer exists in reality. Perhaps we're the dreamers in all of this. The hopeful ones. Dreaming of a Cuba we cannot see with our eyes, that we cannot touch, whose taste lingers on our palates, with the tang of memory. The exiles are the historians, the memory keepers of a lost Cuba, one that's nearly forgotten. ~ Chanel Cleeton

Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear. That which knows and does everything is inside you and harkens to the slightest whisper. ~ Uell Stanley Andersen

Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and promoting our economic values. But Administration officials and their policies are working actively against this goal. ~ Jeff Sessions

It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands ... They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God. ~ Zora Neale Hurston

In crises of this sort the Dyckmanns had usually found it effective to stare into space, encouraging the long pause that might fetch the witty words, 'Well, dear, we must go.' But the Bairds were on an entirely different wavelength, and this was the fault of the Dyckmanns. With the removal of the bottles it had been the mutual impulse of the Bairds to shoot out the door, but their second thought was that they must not... (from "Dinner on the Rocks" (1954) by Dawn Powell) ~ Diana Secker Tesdell

I think it reflects the reality on the ground, that this was an important milestone that's been achieved by the Iraqi people, and it's a significant development. It's a real hopeful moment for democracy in Iraq. ~ Scott McClellan

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world. ~ Zainab Salbi

It's a good note for any young hopeful in this business to take: study up and make sure you are informed at all times because knowing how to anticipate someone's subtle nuances in a performance will only elevate your own art! ~ Tisha Campbell-Martin

If you're reading this, if there's air in your lungs on this November day, then there is still hope for you. Your story is still going. And maybe some things are true for all of us. Perhaps we all relate to pain. Perhaps we all relate to fear and loss and questions. And perhaps we all deserve to be honest, all deserve whatever help we need. Our stories are all so many things: Heavy and light. Beautiful and difficult. Hopeful and uncertain. But our stories aren't finished yet. There is still time, for things to heal and change and grow. There is still time to be surprised. We are still going, you and I. We are stories still going. ~ Jamie Tworkowski

Let us All make the whole WORLD a better place,
pursue our dreams...bond LOVE to the spirit, embrace the young and old.
LOVE... creates justice, peace and freedom.
I believe humans are good at heart they are there
to protect not destroy.
We must help humankind to overcome human evil
with hopeful aspirations, power to inspire and dream...find our own inner light where
tomorrow belongs to a peaceful WORLD
Marialuisa ~ Marialuisa Marino

Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity, until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country. ~ Barack Obama

I've been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it'd be awesome to work with him. He's really kind, and he's been really encouraging when we've met. ~ Taylor Swift