In order to get from what was to what will be, you must go through what is.
~Anonymous
Why shed tears on failures long forgotten when hope looms on the horizon?
~Charles Casha
When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. There is hope in the heart that chases the clouds away. Hope is a higher heart frequency and as you begin to reconnect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. It becomes a matter of how soon you want the sun to shine. Listening to the still, small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality.
~Sara Paddison
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
~George Allen
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
~Clarence Darrow
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
~ Paulo Coelho
When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.
~Pauline R. Kezer
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde
You've gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less.
~ Unknown
To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.
~ E. E. Cummings
Patience and perseverance surmount every difficulty.
~Unknown
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
~Emil Brunne
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. ~ Plato
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
~William James
When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Unknown
Kind words, kind looks, kind acts and warm handshakes, these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles.
~ John Hall
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. ~Martin Luther King, Jr
Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.
~ Eliza Tabor
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
~Napoleon Hill
Nothing worth having in life was ever gained easily.
~Unknown
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
~George S. Patton Jr.
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
~George Bernard Shaw
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
~Gilbert Keith Chesterton
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.
~Sam Fuller
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
~ Thornton Wilder
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
~Richard L. Evans
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.
~Unknown
Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
~Christopher Reeve
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
~Jean-Paul Sartre
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
~Allan K. Chalmers
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. ~ David Lloyd George
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
~Napoleon Hill
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
~Samuel Johnson
When you are down on your back, if you can look up, you can get up.
~Les Brown
You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.
~Zig Ziglar
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
~Barbara Kingsolve
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance.
~H. Jackson Brown
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
~Unknown
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
~Orison Swett Marden
The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
~Anthony J. D'Angelo
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
~Proverb
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
~Elbert Hubbard
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
~Dale Carnegie
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
~Aristotle
Try.
Fail.
Try Again.
Fail Better.
~Samuel Beckett
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
~Josh Billings
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
~Helen Keller
How long should you try? Until.
~Jim Rohn
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