Hopes Quotes

If you love something, you find a way to have it in your life. Opposers may take away your means and tools, but you simply turn to crude replacements, fashioning them from scraps if necessary. Threats only make you steal moments of secrecy to satisfy your love. And if it means but a morsel here and there, you accept each crumb gladly because nothing else can even begin to satisfy your hunger.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death. Maybe these things are justification enough for our hopes and dreams, although I wouldn't say that to a dying man.

~ Don Delillo

The hallmark of great dreams is not their possibility but their impossibility, and the fact that it is the very notion of the ‘impossible’ that inspires us to go and accomplish them anyway.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Very often, what is meant to be a stepping stone turns out to be a slab of wet cement that will harden around your foot if you do not take the next step soon enough.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Your problem is in thinking the sky's the limit. Why set limits?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Dreams aren't finish lines to be reached at the close of a race. They don't suddenly materialize, fulfilled, where the road ends. The entire journey is included in the dream―all of it from beginning to forevermore. You're on that journey right now; hence, you're living the dream. Enjoy it.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Maybe there is no such thing as success—a final destination where you arrive once and for all. Maybe existence is a never-ending journey of peaks and valleys and forever chasing dreams.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.

~ Alain De Botton

Let me learn your interests and share them, tell me of your hopes and together we will attain them, and desire for nothing because as long as you're mine, if you should call forth the stars, I'll bring them down to you.

~ Christi Caldwell

Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

~ Christopher Hitchens

I've heard fate talked of. It's not a word I use. I think we make our own choices. I think how we live our lives is our own doing, and we cannot fully hope on dreams and stars. But dreams and stars can guide us, perhaps. And the heart's voice is a strong one. Always is.

~ Susan Fletcher

After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself.

~ John Connolly

Falling asleep with hopes and wishes that I rarely get to hold in my hand for long…go me. All I’ve got are memories and secrets.

~ Alyse M. Gardner

He simply translated what was in LuLing's heart: her better intentions, her hopes.

~ Amy Tan

Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.

~ Alain De Botton

I wouldn't mindif life left me...winglessburnt to cindersripped by stormsscattered...like weedscelestially woundedwithout cherry blossomsto perish withbut I would crywith head held in my handsif it left me...unfulfilled.

~ Sanober Khan

I wish upon a glimmering star,My hopes as distant and as far. So if this wish does not come true,I’m thankful for the few that do.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A man once believed he could fly—and he did. Another believed he could walk on the moon—and he did. Why not believe your wildest dreams can come true? Why not see the stars as reachable?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Why only gaze at the stars? Catch one!

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.

~ Dean Koontz

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

~ Henry Ford

Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.

~ Vann Chow

Be joyful and expect a great future.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never lose hope.Never lose faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.

~ Red Red Rover

Death is the final dance of dreams, desires, loves and hopes.

~ Debasish Mridha

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

~ Heather Wolf

Books keep and reciprocate our secrets, dreams, regrets, and hopes better than any friend in the world.

~ Drea Damara

My grandfather was a duck trapperHe could do it with just dragnets and ropesMy grandmother could sew new dresses out of old clothI don't know if they had any dreams or hopesI had 'em once though, I suppose, to go alongWith all the ring-dancin' Christmas carols on all of the Christmas evesI left all my dreams and hopesBuried under tobacco leaves

~ Bob Dylan

Speak blessings, and write wishes. ~T.F. Hodge

~ T.f. Hodge

After he's gone Greer sits for a long time. She rests her head on her knees and weeps - not because she loved Blake and not because she's lost him. But because she did not care of herself. She knew Blake's nature the moment she met him, just as she knew the philandering fiancé. She knew them and she knew herself. Greer thinks of the story of the scorpion and the frog, and she knows she cannot blame these men for her messy life, they only did what she always knew they would do. No, this is not about crushed hopes and broken dreams. This is about trusting her own heart. Hope doesn't even enter into it.

~ Menna Van Praag

I suddenly felt the way Cinderella might have felt if she hadn’t had that convenient midnight curfew: my feet were hurting, my hair was slipping free from its pins, and my makeup was getting all smudged from sweat. I was unbelievably tired, undeniably depressed, and I just wanted charming.

~ J.m. Richards

Take a moment and think of something small but significant that you've wanted for decades. Dream about it. Wish for it. Let the dreaming and wishing sink deeply into your being. Add some memories of disappointment just for a little flavor. At some point, over time, a wish can become too important, can become much bigger as a dream than it ever had a right to be.

~ Virginia M. Sanders

Different things drive me at different points in time. Hopes, the things you envision, and even things that pull you down - Kunal Karan Kapoor

~ Kunal Karan Kapoor

In life we don't always get what we want; hopes and dreams get washed away so easily, hearts are broken, chances are missed, and we always seem to end up right back where we started.

~ Rebecah Mcmanus

I have yet to be completely submerged in reality, for drowning in the sky.

~ Kellie Elmore

Where did it all begin? These are simple questions, but just as the humid summer air that can be felt but not touched, the answers are elusive.

~ Elmer Seward

Now, as an adult, my hopes for the future were simple: I wanted to be alone, and to be surrounded by flowers. It seemed, finally, that I might get exactly what I wanted.

~ Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Nothing outside of yourself can prevent you from achieving all of your hopes, dreams and desires….

~ James A. Murphy