Hope Quotes

Choose the Path to Enlightenment over the path of least resistance

~ Brian Coletta

My only Hope is in Jesus Christ.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to have hope than to be without hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not fear, have faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I wanted freedom in the same way I wanted my next breath: an unspoken but constant desire.

~ Jodi Meadows

It was a look that gave her a tingle, all right, but not in a good way. In that look she saw her silly bloody hopes as twisted and broken as she’d left that Lowlander’s arm, and it was no one’s fault but her own. She shouldn’t have let herself hope, but hopes are like weeds: however often you root them out they keep on springing up.

~ Joe Abercrombie

With hope, we can endure any hardship.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is a gift. Use it wisely.

~ Harley King

He had no money or influence here. The clothes on his back were ragged, his moccasins were worn, and he was skeletally thin from lack of food and walking. But he would sail on a ship bound for England even if he had to scrub the decks to pay his way.He was Reynaud St. Aubyn, the Viscount of Hope, and by God or the devil, he was going home.

~ Elizabeth Hoyt

God is our hope and strength. And hope never disappoints. (Romans 5:5). We can place our confidence in Him without fear.

~ Teresa Schultz

I continuously see myself on an airplane that has unlimited fuel. I go here and there but can't stop. Always flying over my destination. I've come to realize I must jump off with my parachute on of course. That is how I'm viewing my life right now.Once I find that loophole than I've reached my destination to success.

~ Hyrum Yeakley

It seems as you'll never know the rights of it; but that doesn't hinder there being a rights, Master Marner, for all it's dark to you and me.''No,' said Silas, 'no; that doesn't hinder. Since the time the child was sent to me and I've come to love her as myself, I've had light enough to trusten by; and now she says she'll never leave me, I think I shall trusten until I die.

~ George Eliot

Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief- what is faith- if you don't continue in it after failure.

~ Brandon Sanderson

We are worth fighting for,” we both whispered. Giving one another permission, into each other madness.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Prayer teaches us the grace of persistent effort.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The trials test the strength of faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The moral of the story is, faith does not always bring you happiness, wealth or a comfortable lifestyle filled with fun things to do. What faith does bring us is hope while living out God's attitudes of: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, all for the glory of God and the establishment of his kingdom.

~ Reid A. Ashbaucher

Yet something else trickles in between the cracks of this despairing thought. The hope of something to fill that emptiness. The hope that, perhaps, I have found it already. And suddenly hope is a thing alive, soaring in me. Its wings beat against my ribs, wild with the promise of joy.

~ Ashlee Willis

Don’t look at me like that, I see those pink cheeks when you talk about him,” she observed. “In my day, if I learned anything, it was to tell the ones you love how much love them. When I was your age, I fell in love with a beautiful woman. You know, fifties and all, I never told her, and she married a man that abused her terribly.” She paused, and Artemis could tell her eyes were dampening. “I went to her funeral two years after she moved away. In her things, there was a letter for me, telling me how much love she’d held in her heart and couldn’t speak. I was happy, my husband and my kids, but I always wonder, what woulda happened if I’d told her how much I loved her.” She smiled again. “Just don’t waste time, that’s what I’ll say. Call it old advice from an interfering old woman.

~ Beverly L. Anderson

With the spirit of endurance, we shall strive in any situation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Surround yourself with what matters.

~ Hlbalcomb

She lives fearlessly in the light of her own truth.

~ H.l. Balcomb

The biggest act of rebellion right now is remaining defiantly hopeful.

~ Rupert Dreyfus

The love of one individual is far more powerful than the hate of one million.

~ Joan Ambu

The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.

~ Bertolt Brecht

If this turns to friendship, it only meansThat one of us will suffer.That when we meet after the worst of endings,There will only be this skein of words between us—Most of them for boredom, fewer for loneliness—Rising out of our mutual space of breath, leavingBehind a bluer sky each moment of departure.And one of us will cling on to its blue,Hung on partings like a muted cloud, whileThe other rides on a wing of word away from here.

~ Cyril Wong

Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your mother wailed on the other end of the phone, grieving her loss and complaining about the basketball of a goitre perched on her shoulder. She told you, your father walked onto the veranda and saw a chook floating ten feet above the ground. The chook didn’t flap a feather and just sat there brooding, swaying in the breeze.

~ Jon Gresham

Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family.

~ Anthony Liccione

Suddenly feeling overwhelmed, Talon said, 'It doesn’t matter. They are all dead.' He felt moisture gathering in his eyes and blinked. 'It’s been a while since I’ve felt that.'Caleb nodded. 'It never goes away, completely. But you’ll discover other things in life.

~ Raymond E. Feist

Hope is the greatest gift and the greatest evil...Hope saved us and hope might yet kill us.

~ Nalini Singh

We love out of compassion, passion or a sense of commitment.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

For it is in selfishness & greed most choose to walk. In hate we choose to be. Yes even the words of love fall from false lips in these times, spreading a deceitful lie about truth itself. We'd rather be consumed by our flesh than to be a giver of life. Shackled by our world in Lou of freeing it. Destroying our meaning - instead of embracing it.

~ Robert Vanleeuwen

Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

This life required scars,...Some were on the outside, and some they carried on the inside. But scars weren’t shameful. They meant survival. They meant putting in work. They meant sticking around and getting through the hard stuff just on the chance that things could get better.

~ T.s. Joyce

I am focusing on positive thoughts – thoughts of hope, thoughts of love, thoughts of faith …

~ Latika Teotia

To live a blissful life fill your heart with love, hope, compassion and kindness; since heart alone has the key to bliss...

~ Latika Teotia

Hope can live in a vacuum.

~ Greg Rucka

The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or the similarity of their thought patterns

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

How we give matters. If your thoughts & goals are selfish, than so be your fief. For it is through the heart that we prosper & through each other that we grow.

~ Robert Vanleeuwen

Many men are broken in spirit because of bitterness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita