If You Have No Hope

Where there is life, there is hope. - Alyson Noel

I was never crippled until I lost hope. - Nick Vujicic

I hope your only rocky road is chocolate. - Amanda Mosher

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. - Norman Cousins

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Francis Bacon

Hope is medicine for a soul that's sick and tired. - Eric Swensson

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. - Henry Rollins

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. - Arnold H Glasgow

I hope it will be hard for the Russians to jump across that creek. - Gustavus Adolphus

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. - Pearl S. Buck

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try. - Zig Ziglar

Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most. - Melinda Gates

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. - Robert G Ingersoll

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none. - Victor Hugo

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. - Epictetus

I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow. - Cher

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. - Leonardo da Vinci

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. - Samuel Smiles

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, "It will be happier..." - Alfred Tennyson

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope,
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. - T S Eliot

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. - William P Young

No kid is unsmart. Every kid's a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it. - Robin Sharma

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow. - Paul L Dunbar

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. - Bertrand Russell

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen. - Deep Roy

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. - Mark Twain

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes ... keep hope alive. - Jesse Jackson

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. - James Agate

When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when al is dire and bleak, there is always hope. - Pittacus Lore

When nature is my inspiration and subject, I am witness to an extraordinary range of color and every imaginable atmospheric condition. - Karen Casey

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar. - Orrin Woodward

When people come alongside us during difficult times to give us renewed courage, a renewed spirit, renewed hope - that's encouragement. - David Jeremiah