Hope Quotes - Page 8

• In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 14, 2015

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• For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Light, Shadow, Cold

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.901, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

  Bertrand Russell

  Misery, Born, Extremes

  "Unpopular Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell, Chapter 3: The Future of Mankind (p. 36), 1950.

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• Not reaching back for what was lost in my yesterdays. And not reaching for what I hope will be in my tomorrow. But living fully with what is right in front of me. And truly seeing the gift of this moment.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Inspirational, Live Life, Future

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• The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

  Edward Kennedy

  Dream, Political, Goes On

  "The Dream Shall Not Die" by Gershon Hepner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2009.

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• Hope elevates, and joy
  Brightens his crest.

  John Milton

  Joy, Paradise Lost Book 9

  John Milton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.179

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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

  People, Opiates, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• While there's life, there's hope.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Latin, Philosophical

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1880). “The Life and Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Being a New Translation of the Letters Included in Mr. Watsons's Selection”

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• I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Light, Dancing

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

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• The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Impunity

  "Pro Tito Annio Milone ad iudicem oratio (Pro Milone)". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Section XVI), 52 BC.

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• Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mean, Want, Outcomes

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• What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Voice, Soul, Disappoint

  "Hope". Poem by Friedrich Schiller, 1797.

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• It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Doubt, Despair, Galadriel

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hoping gets you nothing in life. If you want more in life it’s your job to earn it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Work, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Apr 25, 2012

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• The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Medicine

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 2

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• Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

  Tom Clancy

  Change, Men, Ideas

  Tom Clancy (1995). “Debt of Honor”, p.579, Penguin

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• We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

  John Green

  Teenage, Alaska, Broken

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• What reinforcement we may gain from hope;
  If not, what resolution from despair.

  John Milton

  Despair, May, Gains

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 190

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• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Uplifting, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.8

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• We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

  Amy Tan

  Inspiring, Dream, Fate

  "The Hundred Secret Senses". Book by Amy Tan, 1995.

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• To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blow, Men, Flames

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• Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.

  William Penn

  Giving, Expectations, Judgement

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

  Abraham Cowley

  Healing, Cures, Endure

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• He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Medicine, Physicians, Medical

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3340, Delphi Classics

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• Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

  Walter Scott

  Motivational, Expectations, Dawn

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.210

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