Quotes About Futile Hope

#1. The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

George Gissing

#2. Honey, you can get happy in the same shoes you get sad in,

Barbara Taylor Sissel

#3. Finding the happiness within is difficult but looking for happiness outside is futile.

Debasish Mridha

#4. It's a little early in our relationship for us to be 'surmounting,' but, hey, I'm game if you are. I'll even let you be on top." He looked directly at me, a coy smile playing on his lips.

Stacey Marie Brown

#5. It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

Joel Osteen

#6. Dissect your motives deeper! You will find that no one has ever done anything wholly for others. All actions are self-directed, all service is self-serving, all love self-loving.

Irvin D. Yalom

#7. If living is to end in pain, incompleteness, and nothingness, it seems a cruel and futile experience for beings who are born to reason, hope, create, and love.

Alan W. Watts

#8. Live in hope. Because things do happen. Things do change. Worry really is futile. Don't fear the future. Dreams do come true.

Miranda Hart

#9. I drifted off after a while, staring at the only star visible through the thick covering of leaves. Hope seemed a futile wish, but I troubled the lonely star to grant it anyway.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. ...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then finds new grounds that constitute the base from which a unique course of his people's destiny is charted...

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#11. There's a bit of the kid in me.

Jeff Bridges

#12. Droll thing life is
that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself
that comes too late
a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

Joseph Conrad

#13. Maybe there were people out there whose love could survive anything, but mine was fragile. It needed to be nurtured in order to thrive and grow.

Sylvia Day

#14. If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#15. I will leave and isolate myself rather than go through the futile task of trying to make everyone happy, which is impossible anyway.

Donna Lynn Hope

#16. When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

Patty Loveless

#17. We serve a God who is waiting to hear from you, and He can't wait to respond.

Priscilla Shirer

#18. I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

Bruce Lee

#19. My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

Ma Jian

#20. Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where they come from.

Charlton Laird

#21. So dry your tears. Fortune has not yet turned her hatred against all your blessings. The storm has not yet broken upon you with too much violence. Your anchors are holding firm and they permit you both comfort in the present, and hope in the future.

Boethius

#22. The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find
someone whose flaws are the sort you don't mind. It is
futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone
who is capable of significant change; that sort of person
exists only in our imaginations.

Scott Adams

#23. The two biggest myths about me are that I'm an intellectual, because I wear these glasses, and that I'm an artist because my films lose money. Those two myths have been prevalent for many years.

Woody Allen

#24. The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.

Wyclef Jean

#25. O hope, most futile of futilities!
Thine iron summons comes again,
O inevadible Pain!

Francis Thompson

#26. The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.

Samuel Smiles