Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of helplessness go with it. — U.G. Krishnamurti
Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. — Euripides
Never give up hope. Situations can change over night, problems can dissolve in the light of a new day's sun. — Leon Brown
The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope. — Peter Kropotkin
There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people. — Heinz Guderian
There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for. — Haruki Murakami
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational. — Bertrand Russell
Totally without hope, one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. — Jürgen Moltmann
Where there is no hope, we must invent it. — Albert Camus
Desperate times breed desperate measures — William Shakespeare
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Where no hope is left, is left no fear. — John Milton
The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not. — Vance Havner
I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS. — Tupac Shakur
Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone. — Nancy Reagan
We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope. — Mahmoud Darwish
Hopeless Situations Image Quotes
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.
Hopeless Quotes
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. — G. K. Chesterton
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. — Barack Obama
Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas! — William Osler
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus. — Billy Graham
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. — Chester W. Nimitz
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do. — Dorothy Day
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it. — Billy Graham
I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential. — Vandana Shiva
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. — Shirley Chisholm
I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place. — Michel Foucault
Intention is for achievers. Hope is for the hopeless. — Robert Kiyosaki
Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If things go wrong, don’t go with them.
A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age. — Ram Dass
the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without. — Kofi Annan
Every time you find some humor in a difficult situation, you win.
Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie. — Bill Johnson
We can see hope in the midst of hopelessness. We can see peace in the midst of chaos. We have a hope that the world does not have. We can see clearly that all things work together for the good of them that love Him and are called according to His purpose. — Priscilla Shirer
It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times. — Nick Jonas
I'm tempted to say that the top three reasons for hopelessness are rejection, rejection, rejection. But let's cast our net wider. 1) Not being able to write as well as we hoped we could. 2) Not being able to write at all. 3) Rejection. — Ralph Keyes
Desperate Situations Quotes
To overcome a desperate situation, make a complete turn in one sudden burst. — Japanese Proverbs
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation. — Alice Miller
Take a bad or desperate situation and turn it into a successful one. — Japanese Proverbs
However desperate the situation and circumstances, don't despair. When there is everything to fear, be unafraid. When surrounded by dangers, fear none of them. When without resources, depend on resourcefulness. When surprised, take the enemy by surprise. — Sun Tzu
In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor. — Douglas MacArthur
Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate. — Frederica Mathewes-Green
Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became. — Douglas Bader
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader. — Daisaku Ikeda
Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains. — Alan Redpath
In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations. — Olivia Wilde
Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives — Torey L. Hayden
As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there" - as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering - the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise. — Byron Katie
There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change! — Rhonda Byrne
For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement. — Viktor E. Frankl
I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation. I crazily try to be the diplomat. If there are two warring factions in my life, I want them to agree to disagree at the very least. — Michael Stipe
We should not give up and say that the situation is hopeless. There is still our conscience, there is still the memory of the victims of this war, there is still our duty to try and prevent further bloodshed. We have to prosecute all the perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity. — Lidia Yusupova
There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make. — Andy Andrews
By nature I will find hope in everything. Even if it's the most incredibly hopeless situation or circumstance. That's just me... I'll never be able to see things any other way. — Michael Stipe
Your life is in your hands. No matter where you are now, no matter what has happened in your life,you can begin to consciously choose your thoughts, and you can change your life.There is no such thing as a hopeless situation.Every single circumstance of your life can change! — Rhonda Byrne
There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations. — Zig Ziglar
When you're depressed, the whole body is depressed, and it translates to the cellular level. The first objective is to get your energy up, and you can do it through play. It's one of the most powerful ways of breaking up hopelessness and bringing energy into the situation. — O. Carl Simonton
Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes. — Norman Vincent Peale
Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God. — Chip Ingram
Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a
hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond
himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph. — Viktor E. Frankl
When you have a nation that is suffering collectively from a situation of injustice - of violence, of imprisonment and closure and checkpoints, from a sense of vulnerability and of hopelessness - attitudes are going to be affected by these measures. — Hanan Ashrawi
The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step. — Pablo Casals
Fostering your sense of creativity can give you feelings of freedom, delight and passion. It can help you see your life in a new light and help you to tackle situations that you thought were hopeless. When you express yourself through creative action you find gifts such as: happiness, self worth, healing, and inner joy. — Ami McKay
I can’t count the times I have lagged seemingly hopelessly far behind, and nobody except myself thinks I can win. But I have pulled myself in from desperate [situations]. When you are behind there are two strategies - counter-attack or all men to the defences. I’m good at finding the right balance between those. — Magnus Carlsen
In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse. — Kurt Vonnegut
When you're trapped in an abusive home environment you can feel completely hopeless and lost. Remember that situations can change with time, and that it won't be this way forever. — Reggie Yates
Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated. — Robert Wright
A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly. — Lionel Trilling
Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married? — Eric Braeden
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched. — Erika Slezak
So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming. — Edsger Dijkstra
Staying in a hopeless and miserable situation doesn't make you loyal, it just makes you miserable. — The Weeknd
The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries will take their place on the shelf along with the belief in witches and the notion that the earth is the center of the solar system. Nobody knows as yet whether the future [of the race situation] is hopeless. All we know is that it can be made hopeless, if enough people choose to consider it so. — Margaret Halsey
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive cannot be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes. — Norman Vincent Peale
"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless. — Wilferd Peterson
The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless. — Timothy Keller
But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness. — Judah Smith
When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless. — Byron Katie
However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance. — Paul Keres
No matter how dark and hopeless a situation might seem, never stop praying. — Billy Graham
I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration. — Aziz Ansari
My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss. — Marvin Sapp
Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries again - not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living. Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation. — Hugh Prather
That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our
best. — Aldo Leopold
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