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Hope Quotes and Sayings

Hope is that thing that all of us need in tough times. Let me show you some great hope quotes for a better day.

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. ~Christopher Reeve

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

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. ~Titus Maccius Plautus

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. ~Vincent McNabb

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878

Hope QuotesWhen the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.” ~Author Unknown

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing – but we all do and call it Hope. ~Edgar Howe

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose? ~Robert Brault

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. ~Samuel Johnson

Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all. ~Emily Dickinson

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. ~Anne Lamott

All it takes is one bloom of hope to make a spiritual garden. ~Terri Guillemets

The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope. ~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. ~Marian Zimmer Bradley

You’ve gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less. ~ Author Unknown

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Lord save us all from… a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. ~Mark Twain

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ~George Iles

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Beauty Quotes

“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.” – Sara Teasdale

“When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” – Sophia Loren

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” – Miss Piggy

Beauty Quotes“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.” – Adlai E. Stevenson

“When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they’re actually beautiful.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.” – Don Williams, Jr

“I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.” – Sarah McLachlan

“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder” – Kinky Friedman

“She’s beautiful, and therefore to be woo’d She is a woman, therefore to be won” – William Shakespeare

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone” – Dorothy Parker

“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love” – Rabindranath Tagore

Inspirational Quotes

This above all, to thine own self be true. – William Shakespeare

Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

Life is a choice. – Anonymous

Attitude is everything. – Charles Swindoll

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. – George Bernard Shaw

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have. – Yiddish Proverb

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. – A Course in Miracles

Earth Day Quotes

Earth Day QuotesToday we celebrate Earth Day. Let’s do it in our own way, sharing Earth Day Quotes.

Every day is Earth Day. ~Author Unknown

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. ~A Chieftan from Nigeria

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau

There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all. ~Robert Orben

I’m not an environmentalist. I’m an Earth warrior. ~Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ~Bill Vaughn, quoted in Jon Winokur, The Portable Curmudgeon, 1987

For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature. Now we’re beating it to death. ~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ~Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977

A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it’s taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence. But if a world mother doesn’t reply, Her excuse is simple. She never claimed conceited omnipotence. She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves. To Her elder offspring She says – go raid the fridge. Go play outside. Go get a job. Or, better yet, lend me a hand. I have no time for idle whining. ~David Brin

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. ~Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1963

Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time. ~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle, 1855

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values…. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. ~Charles A. Lindbergh, Reader’s Digest, July 1972

After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea. ~George Carlin

Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. ~Stephanie Mills, ed., In Praise of Nature, 1990

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. ~David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978

It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times…. What the Dickens is going on here? ~Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy of Sciences, Improving Risk Communication, 1989

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ~Juvenal, Satires

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. ~Brooke Medicine Eagle

You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ~Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~William Shakespeare

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb

Famous People Quotes #2

“The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.” – John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.” – E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

“Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.” – Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

“Assassins!” – Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra

“I’ll moider da bum.” – Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.” – Yogi Berra

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.” – Rene Descartes (1596-1650), “Discours de la Methode”

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford (1863-1947)

“Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.” – Yoda (‘The Empire Strikes Back’)

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns (1896-1996)

“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

“There are no facts, only interpretations.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” – Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

“The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.” – Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)

“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.” – Bjarne Stroustrup

“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.” – Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

“Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.” – Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

Living Quotes

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Helen Keller

You’re only here for a short visit. So don’t forget to stop and smell the roses. – Walter Hagen

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. – Joseph Campbell

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn

Life is a long lesson in humility. – James M. Barrie

“Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path. – Khalil Gibran

Living QuotesNothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. – Paul Tournier

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…
It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. – Khalil Gibran

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. – Lord Chesterfield

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. – The Buddha

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. – Lee Ann Womack

 

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. – Anne Frank

 

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. – The Buddha

What’s done is done. – William Shakespeare

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa

Be gentle first with yourself. – Lama Yeshe

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. – Anonymous

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell

Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional. – Buddhist proverb

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. – Mark Twain

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. – Brigitte Bardot

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. – Elie Wiesel

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. – Anonymous

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. – Mark Twain

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. – Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love Quotes

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. – George Eliot

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. – Khalil Gibran

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. – Khalil Gibran

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. – Maurice Maeterlinck

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

I’ve learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them. – Anonymous

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you. – Margaret Atwood

Parting is such sweet sorrow. – William Shakespeare

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. – Anonymous

If I hadn’t met you, I wouldn’t like you.
If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you.
If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will. – Anonymous

You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy, even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it. – Anonymous

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. – Washington Irving

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is never good dwelling on good-byes … it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting. – Elizabeth Bibesco

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. – George Washington

Short Love Quotes

After a great piece of Short Tattoo Quotes, let me share with you some Short Love Quotes. Please enjoy, share, and tell us what’s your favorite from this list.

“Love makes time pass; time makes love pass” – French Proverb

“It is not love, but lack of love which is blind” – Glenway Wescott

“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity” – George Bernard Shaw

“The hottest love has the coldest end” – Socrates

“Forget love… I’d rather fall in chocolate” – Unknown

“He who is not impatient is not in love” – Italian Proverb

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder” – William Shakespeare

“Love is blind — marriage is the eye-opener” – Pauline Thomason

“Better to have loved and lost then to have never loved at all” – Hemmingway

“The ones that you love the most are usually the ones that hurt you the most” – Kati

Short Love Quotes“Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile” – Elizabeth Browning

“A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left” – Marilyn Monroe

“Love is like a war: Easy to begin Hard to end” – Ancient Proverbs

“Live the life you’ve dreamed” – Henry David Thoreau

“Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out of love is simply awful” – Unknown

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear” – John Lennon

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them” – Mother Teresa

“I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you” – Roy Croft

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart” – Helen Keller

“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world” – Heather Cortez

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime” – Bette Davis

“If you love me, let me know. If not, please gently let me go” – Unknown

“When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams” – Dr. Seuss

“The best thing about me is you” – Shannon Crown

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death” – Thomas Mann

Sad Quotes about Life

Let me share with you some wonderful Sad Quotes about Life for more inspiration.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. – Henry David Thoreau

The world is perfect. It’s a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives. – Joseph Campbell

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight. – Rabindranath Tagore

Sad Quotes about LifeAny fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. – Benjamin Franklin

The word “happy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Gustav Jung

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. – Publilius Syrus

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history. – Carl Jung

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. – William Shakespeare

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. – Leo Buscaglia

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, “It might have been”. – John Greenleaf Whittier

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein

Success Quotes

– “We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.” – Cicero

– “Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.” – Euripides

– “They can because they think they can.” – Virgil

– “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson

– “Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.” – Theodore T. Hunger

– “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

– “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” – Frank Loyd Wright

– “A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.” – Elbert Hubbard

– “There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley

– “The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis

– “The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.” – Owen Feltham

– “Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.” – Dennis Waitley

– “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi

– “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope

– “Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.” – Josh Billings

– “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Earl of Beaconsfield

– “Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.” – Evan Esar

– “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

– “If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” – Jospeph Addison

– “Impatience never commanded success.” – Edwin H. Chapin

– “The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.” – Henry W. Longfellow

– “To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.” – Shakespeare

– “Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

– “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.” – W.C. Fields