Top 97 Quotes About Giving Up Hope
#1. I turn and gaze at the
bright blue sky, squinting. It's like surfacing for air after
giving up hope, after resigning to drown, suffocating
Katie Klein
#2. Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
Julianna Baggott
#3. When you have a true ambition for something, you will not give up hope. Giving up hope is a sign that you are lacking ambition to achieve that goal!
Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler
#4. Without giving up hope - that there's somewhere better to be, that there's someone better to be - we will never relax with where we are or who we are.
Pema Chodron
#5. There's no way to be sure," Irene said. "The biggest threat is giving up hope. If he decides there's no chance to survive, he'll stop trying.
Andy Weir
#6. The important things are to train hard, and not give up hope.
Lasse Viren
#7. People give up on each other long before they give up on themselves, and they do that, too.
Donna Lynn Hope
#8. I'd give up golf if I didn't have so many sweaters.
Bob Hope
#9. No matter how hopeless or bleak things appear, the moment always comes when suddenly our spirit revives, and hope is reborn. That is why we must never give up.
Daisaku Ikeda
#10. My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.
Khalil Gibran
#11. That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.
Mark Twain
#12. You must either suffer in this life or give up the hope of seeing God in Heaven. Sufferings and persecutions are of the greatest avail to us, because we can find therein a very efficient means to make atonement for our sins, since we are bound to suffer for them either in this world or in the next.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#13. When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.
Shannon L. Alder
#14. Though life shall come to an end one day, don't end life whilst living. So many people end their lives whilst they live before their lives come to a real end! There is always another tomorrow to do something different!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#15. Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
Oprah Winfrey
#16. I will make mistakes, after all I am not perfect, but I will do my best to make them up to you. I would never hurt you intentionally. I would not give up on you, so I hope you don't give up on me.
Sincerely,
The Person that Loves You
Carlos Salinas
#17. Never give up. There is always hope, there is always life. You've just gotta open your heart to it. Live in love.
Austin Carlile
#18. Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
Juvenal
#19. Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.
Lily Tomlin
#20. Today, when I stepped outside, I got shit on by a bird. But I'm still going back outside tomorrow.
Christie Craig
#21. There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.
David O. Russell
#22. I'd tell the planet to actively and consciously practice gratitude. To never give up hope. To believe in themselves and be true to who they are. To be kind. To share. To protect our planet for future generations.
Trista Sutter
#23. The world I grew up in is gone, too," I said quietly. "But that doesn't mean I'm going to give up on it. Because if you give up - then what is there left to live for?
Danielle Paige
#25. The only hope for healing is to offer a better form of ecstasy, to upgrade so the addict will give up the stupid one.
Robert A. Johnson
#26. Never give up hope! Hope ultimately succeeds.
Sri Chinmoy
#27. I write to express myself, I write to be a voice for those who can not speak I write to inspire change in positive ways I write in hope to make a difference After I have giving up the ghost I would have written to leave my foot prints behind
Ocean Crisstopher Poet
#28. Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks ...
Hunter S. Thompson
#29. There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.
Jefferson Smith
#30. If we're willing to give up hope that insecurity and pain can be eliminated, then we can have the courage to relax with the groundlessness of our situation. This is the first step on the path.
Pema Chodron
#32. My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are also stories of faith, hope, triumph, and love. They are stories of perseverance, loyalty, courage in the face of overwhelming odds, and of never giving up!
Livia Bitton-Jackson
#34. Never give up; nothing is done overnight. Anyone who achieved anything in life always did it after many failures. Don't give up hope.
Swami Satchidananda
#35. This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.
Jay Asher
#36. the danger in loving is in giving someone the ability to destroy you. Because you cannot truly love without giving up some of yourself, and it is a leap of faith to hope that the person you give it to cares enough for it that you keep yourself all in one piece.
Colleen Vanderlinden
#37. It's probably my job to tell you life isn't fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I'll tell you that hope is precious, and you're right not to give up.
C.J. Redwine
#38. I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a
blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving
obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.
Henry Rollins
#40. Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
Anne Lamott
#41. Our strategy [at Chelsea] is to bring up our own players through the academy, which we have invested a lot in, and hope it gives results
Roman Abramovich
#42. Nothing can happen if it's not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.
Jim Valvano
#43. Looking forward with an eternal perspective gives one hope, a reason to look up and feel gratitude for even the smallest bit of light.
Rosemary M. Wixom
#44. I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past ... but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.
Martha Beck
#45. [ ... ] it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.
Matthew Polly
#46. Defeat is a transient perception but giving up is permanent. So never give up.
Debasish Mridha
#47. Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#48. Never give up! There's always hope because there's always help
Susan Ford
#49. Obama has had two raging successes in his term: He has slashed unemployment by persuading millions to give up hope and leave the labor force; and He has cut illegal immigration by casting the United States into a permanent job shortage. Some achievements!
Dick Morris
#50. When there is nonjudgmental love then there is no giving up.
Debasish Mridha
#51. People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.
Orson Scott Card
#52. You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.
Aidan Chambers
#53. All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#54. Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#55. I can't give up Golf, I've got too many sweaters.
Bob Hope
#56. Hope is sweet. Hope is illumining. Hope is fulfilling. Hope can be everlasting. Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.
Sri Chinmoy
#57. Alone again. But not lonely. This was my fate. I'd reached a point so low that I actually stopped wishing for relief. Hope was dangerous. Giving up was self-preservation. I was better off trusting no one.
Riley Jean
#58. There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.
Rachel Caine
#59. Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?
Anne Lamott
#60. We have all experience some kind of failures. The determination to keep trying and never giving up fuel the spirit of hope for the ultimate success.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#62. We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.
Edward Kennedy
#63. The only chance of life lies in giving up all hope of it.
Sun Tzu
#64. Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
Caroline Leavitt
#65. I have been happy ... in believing that ... whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we shall never give up our Union, the last anchor of our hope, and that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from becoming an arena of gladiators.
Thomas Jefferson
#66. It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we are adding peace to the world. We have to do our best and at the same time give up all hope of fruition.
Pema Chodron
#67. Turns out fixing people up is not how we make money. It's failing to fix people up while still giving them hope that soon we might.
Laurie Frankel
#68. When you feel the world is against you or you give up hope, you look at your heroes and say, "They were able to do it. They had hard times and a lot of opposition, but they got through it." Then you feel, "I can do it too."
John Leguizamo
#69. My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to reach for their goals and not give up. The real story is this: if I can do it, you can too.
Gretchen Carlson
#70. Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost.
Theodore Kaczynski
#71. I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.
Elizabeth Strout
#72. Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many people give up a lot to do something good. I'm sure we would have found a cure for cancer 20 years ago if we had really tried
Terry Fox
#73. Never give up hope. Situations can change over night, problems can dissolve in the light of a new day's sun.
Leon Brown
#74. Hope is holding on, praying expectantly. It's never giving up. It's never quitting.
Syed Ather
#75. In three words I can sum up the purpose of life: living, loving, and giving.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
Tyler Perry
#78. If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject His caring, steadfast love and cut ourselves off from our only real hope.
Sheila Walsh
#79. When you give up the hope that some advisor, some system, some source of inside tips is going to give you a shortcut to wealth, you'll finally begin to gain control over your financial future.
Harry Browne
#80. If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
Barbara Kingsolver
#81. I'm sorry it took me so long," he says with a voice full of remorse. "But I'll never be able to thank you enough for not giving up on me. You saw something in me that gave you hope in us, and you didn't give up on that. And Tate? That means more to me than anything anyone's ever done.
Colleen Hoover
#82. Let there be room left in your heart for the unimaginable ~ serendipity has a way of showing itself just when you feel like giving up.
Nikki Rowe
#84. It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort of inspiration that you see from so many hundreds of people who tackle tasks that are impossible and never give up and succeed.
Jane Goodall
#85. You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.
Charles Spurgeon
#86. Teach your children that a person is more valuable than any treasure found on this earth, teach them to love, teach them to sing, and dance, teach them to be courageous, and tell them they will be victorious on anything they put their heart and mind to, teach them honesty, and to never give up hope.
Martin Suarez
#87. Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man.
Ronald Reagan
#88. When someone is missing the really hard thing is that you never really do give up hope, even though the inquest says that she is dead, even though right from the beginning we already knew that we wouldn't see her again.
Jackie French
#89. Don't abandon what makes you who you are. Don't give up hope.
DeVon Franklin
#90. Be strong, little one. There's a reason you are here. Like anyone with a dream, you have a purpose, big or small. Never lose hope that your glowing star will one day join the sky of winners. Never
stop believing.
Charles Lee
#91. And ever so slowly, she sits up, giving herself another chance. She realizes that nobody can make it better. She has to make it better for herself.
Victoria Haugnes
#92. My best advice is this - by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up.
Robyn Carr
#93. I cry even harder, thinking of how it could have been, of how I thought it would be. For the first time, I want to give up, to die, because suddenly everything is too much and there is no solution in sight.
B.A. Paris
#94. We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion ... To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#95. Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being alive is better than being dead. And if I have just one wish it is this: that you work with all your might and love with all your heart and never lose hope and never give up.
Betsy Lerner
#96. Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
Golda Meir
#97. If you know someone that has given up hope, try giving that person some of your peace, joy, and faith!
Molly Friedenfeld
