15 Hope Quotes to Keep you Going on in Life

Once you choose hope anything is possible
Christopher Reeve

1. Once you choose hope, anything's possible. -Christopher Reeve 

2. 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 

3. Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. -Lin Yutang 

4. Never give up. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it. Catherine Pulsifer 

5. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. Albert Einstein 

6. To be without hope is like being without goals, what are you working towards? - Catherine Pulsifer  

7. What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.-Norman Vincent Peale 

8. Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.- Thich Nhat Hanh 

9. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.- Dale Carnegie 

10. The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.- Allan K. Chalmers 

11. Never let go of hope - dream, take action, and get that transfer to live the life you wish.-Catherine Pulsifer 

12. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.- Vaclav Havel 

13. There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.-Orison Swett Marden 

14. To live without Hope is to Cease to live.-Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

15. It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.-Robert H. Goddard

5 Wonderful Benefits of hopefulness

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

Rick Snyder, one of the leading specialists in hope represent it as an ability to conceptualize goals, find pathways to these goals despite obstacles and have the motivation to use those pathways. To put it more simply, we feel hope if we: a) know what we want, b) can think of a range of ways to get there and c) start and keep ongoing.

What can hopefulness do for you?

A powerful motivator: According to an article, Happiness, Hope, and Optimism, C.R. Snyder, a University of Kansas psychologist posed the following hypothetical situation to college students: "Although you set your goal of getting a B in a class, after your first exam, which accounts for 30% of your grade, you find you only scored a D. It is now one week later. What do you do?" Snyder found that hope made all the difference. Students with high levels of hope said they would work harder and thought of a wider range of things they could do to improve their final grade. Students with moderate levels of hope thought of several ways to improve their grades but had far less determination to pursue them. Students with low levels of hope gave up attempting to improve their grades, completely demoralized (Goleman, 1995).

Reduce stress: According to another article, Positive thinking: Stop negative self-talk, having a positive outlook enables you to cope better with stressful situations, which reduces the harmful health effects of stress on your body. It's also thought that positive and optimistic people tend to live healthier lifestyles — they get more physical activity, follow a healthier diet, and don't smoke or drink alcohol in excess.

More resilient: Hopeful people may face setbacks and obstacles; they will not give up easily but are more determined to face challenges ahead.  In an article, Hope and Survival: The Power of Psychological Resilience,  Carol Farran, an eldercare expert from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, sought to understand why some nursing home residents thrived, despite adversity and isolation, while others just withered away. The difference between the two groups, she found, was hope. By "hope" she did not mean the blind or rigid optimism that usually passes for hope. Rather, for Farran, hope meant an openness to the possibility (optimism), acceptance of risk, and a determination to work things out. Hopeful people, she wrote, face reality in a clear-eyed fashion, doing the best they can. "The hopeful person looks at reality and then arrives at solutions. If a hoped-for outcome became impossible, the hopeful person would find something else to hope for."

Life is worth living: Life is meaningful. Hopeful people have an optimistic expectation for the future. They carry on living despite facing difficult circumstances. They are hopeful that things will get better one fine day. Hopefulness promotes cheerfulness and seeing light at the end of the tunnel.

Hope is happiness: Happy people diligently do what they need to do every day and hope for the best. Life, after all, is a journey. It ends only when your life ends. According to Robert Louis Stevenson, it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive and the true success is to labor.

Conclusion

Hopefulness is pressed but not crushed. Do not give up hope.