Hopeless Quotes

• To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Inspirational, Success

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• Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Mean, Unbelievable Things

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• The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Hope

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• A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Hope, Courage, Giving Up

  "The Armed Forces Prayer Book". Book edited by Daniel Alfred Poling, 1951.

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• When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

  Charles L. Allen

  Hope, Doors, Faces

  Charles L. Allen (2003). “All Things Are Possible Through Prayer: The Faith-Filled Guidebook That Can Change Your Life”, p.51, Revell

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• A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Travel, Missing, Pieces

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.42

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• There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Positive, Hope, Men

  Clare Boothe Luce (1941). “European spring”

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• A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Men, Hopeful, Chance

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• Faith means believing the unbelievable.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Believe, Mean

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• Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hope, Hero, Giving

  "Vaclav Havel Dead: The Quotes Of The Man Who 'Lived In Truth'" by Paul Vale, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. December 18, 2011.

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• The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

  Barack Obama

  Determination, Powerful, Helping Others

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• Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.

  Anne Grant

  Grief, Journey, Confusion

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• There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hope, World, Emptiness

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, August 25, 1995.

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• When gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart,
  that man is well-nigh hopeless.

  Bob Jones, Sr.

  Gratitude, Heart, Men

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• The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

  Albert Camus

  Fall, Punishment, Rocks

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.119, Vintage

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• The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

  Anne Lamott

  Giving Up, Reason, Never Give Up Hope

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• Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Attitude

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• I'M A HOPELESS ROMANTIC

  Aaron Paul

  Romantic, Hopeless Romantic

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• It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

  Emmet Fox

  Love, Motivational, Mistake

  Emmet Fox (1940). “Power Through Constructive Thinking”

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• If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Confused, Political, Politics

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• Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Loss, Issues

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• We found love in a hopeless place.

  Rihanna

  Missing Someone, Popular Song, Found Love

  Song: We Found Love In A Hopless Place, Album: Talk That Talk

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• The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Looks, Viewpoints, Literature

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• What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

  Abbe Pierre

  Zoos, Heart, Fighting

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