Inspirational Hope Quotes

That's just the way it goes when you're going to meet your destiny. Something comes over you and it keeps your heart so stirred that nothing seems impossible… Well, except for sleep, or taking your mind off of the future." -Kearney ~ Brittany L. Engels

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive. ~ Jesse Jackson

Hope is a song in a weary throat. ~ Pauli Murray

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. ~ Clement Of Alexandria

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough. ~ Philibert Joseph Roux

Don't give up on hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope ~Henri - I am number four ~ Pittacus Lore

Don't wait for things to happen, get out and happen to them. ~ Srivyal Vuyyuri Sphoorti Foundation

A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against. ~ Diana Vreeland

Life is like a book starts with title similar to your personal names, begins to give you pleasure with each and every different chapters, and finally ends with lesson learned, leaving you in loneliness again. ~ Santosh Kalwar

Each day when you wake up, say: "What miracles would you have me perform today?" Then listen. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein

You the human are the highest temple of God. I would rather worship you, than worship any temple, image or book. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Just handle what is in front of you now and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still only halfway to the corner. ~ Dan Millman

Setbacks are stepping stones to something better. ~ Cash Peters

Abundance in life comes from generosity. ~ Debasish Mridha

May our hearts be filled with great love for one another. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.'
'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand. ~ Evelyn Waugh

Live life like it's your last day. Make every minute count. For tomorrow is not promised. Live in the moment. ~ Alisha Broughton

I just had this feeling about you," she said. "Is that foolish?"
"I hope not. ~ Rainbow Rowell

At the first turning of the second stair
I turned and saw below
The same shape twisted on the banister
Under the vapour in the fetid air
Struggling with the devil of the stairs who wears
The deceitful face of hope and of despair ~ T. S. Eliot

A desired qualification must be preceded by the endeavor to prove that it is deserved ~ Shubha Vilas

Yes, it is cool, and I very much hope this baby likes me, he went on, because I think I'm already crazy about it, almost as much as I am about its mother. ~ Melissa Hill

When we give alms, it doesn't seem we have too much, but our assets increase when there's smile on the faces of those we helped; their smiles is our assets, our assets is their smile ~ Emmanuel Chimnecherem Cletus

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men. ~ Thomas Merton

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing. ~ Jacob M. Appel

I wondered what a man I had encountered the day before on the plane en route to Chicago's O'Hare airport would have made of this. As he tried to push through a crowded aisle, he said loudly: "Life is never easy. And it's never pleasant." I couldn't let this go. I looked up at him from my seat and said, "I do hope life gives you cause to change that opinion. Otherwise you may find that opinion walking ahead of you, giving you more and more reasons to believe it. ~ Robert Moss

One day, a knight in shining armour may find my daughter,
and offer to save her from her life, her problems, her troubles.
In that situation, I hope that I have raised a girl
that she smiles coolly and tells him,
'No, thank you. I've very much got this.'
Then puts on her armour and rides off into the sunset alone
to save herself. ~ Nikita Gill

It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless. ~ L.R. Knost

There comes a time to speak your truth and the time is now ~ Renae A. Sauter

We are called to love even in the loneliness, worship even in the tears and follow even in the darkness. ~ Pete Wilson

People like us we gotta stick together
Keep your head up nothing lasts forever. ~ Kelly Clarkson

Even an expert has room to improve, grow and learn a little more. All the great masters teach this. For this reason, never allow an expert's 'opinion' to limit you in any way, whether it is with your intellect, accomplishments or illness and disease ~ Gary Hopkins

Dietrich would never do that ~ Marlene Dietrich

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. ~ Anais Nin

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once. ~ Ann Brashares

She will be your living end.

- Lady Grinning Soul ~ David Bowie

Winning is not always about shining the brightest. Sometimes it's about sharing the light with someone who has been waiting in the shadows all along. ~ Sarah Weeks

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I hope people'll find out pretty quickly that the guy they saw for 10 years was my sense of humor the whole time. ~ Stephen Colbert

Be the designer of your own future. ~ Debasish Mridha

...I continued to sit there hour after hour watching the unrelenting rain slosh against the glass, thinking of our life together, Lotte's and mine, how everything in it was designed to give a sense of permanence, the chair against the wall that was there when we went to sleep and there again when we awoke, the little habits that quoted from the day before and predicted the day to come, though in truth it was all just an illusion, just as solid matter is an illusion, just as our bodies are an illusion, pretending to be one thing when really they are millions upon millions of atoms coming and going, some arriving while others are leaving us forever, as if each of us were only a great train station, only not even that since at least in a train station the stones and the tracks and the glass roof stay still while everything else rushes through it, no, it was worse than that, more like a giant empty field where every day a circus erected and dismantled itself, the whole thing from top to bottom, but never the same circus, so what hope did we really have of ever making sense of ourselves, let alone one another? ~ Nicole Krauss