Inspirational Quotes

“If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.” ~ Lance Armstrong

"Hope provides the patient and their family the strength to continue the battle no matter how unfavourable the odds may appear to be" ~ Henry S Friedman MD

“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”

"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die." - Edward Kennedy (1932-2009)

"I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, and transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone." - Gale Brook Burket

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller

“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”

"Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles." ~Alex Karras

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within." ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left." ~ Hubert Humphrey

"The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities." ~ Author Unknown

"When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger." ~Mark Rutherford

"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow" ~Dan Rather

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow." ~Mary Anne Radmacher

"May the stars carry your sadness away, May the flowers fill your heart with beauty, May hope forever wipe away your tears, And, above all, may silence make you strong." ~Chief Dan George

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. We must do that which we think we cannot." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt.

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ~Epicurus

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." – Oprah Winfrey

"To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping" ~ Chinese proverb

"The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges" ~ Martin Luther King Jr

"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. ~ Don Williams, Jr.

"Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey." ~ Alex Noble

"Don't count the days, make the days count." -Muhammad Ali

"Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it." ~ Winston Churchill

"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher" ~ Oprah Winfrey

"A strong positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug" ~ Patricia Neal

"The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient’s hopes are the physician’s secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription" ~ Norman Cousins

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow" ~ Orison Marden

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe" ~ Anatole France

"Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams" ~ Author unknown

"It takes but one positive thought, when given a chance to survive and thrive, to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts." ~ Robert H. Schuller

“When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly”

"What Cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important.. you dont sweat about the small stuff..its not worth it. If it weren't for the downside, everyone would want to have it. But sadly there is a downside." ~American Morning, CNN

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose" ~ Lyndon Johnson

Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. ~Author Unknown

“In all things it is better to hope than to despair” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.” ~ Anne Lamott

"With communication comes understanding and clarity; with understanding, fear diminishes; in the absence of fear, HOPE emerges; and in the presence of hope, anything is possible." - Ellen Stovall

"At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE" - Henri Frederic Amiel

'Although there is no uniform definition of hope, I found one that seemed to capture what my parents had taught me. Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future. Hope acknowledges the significant obstacles and Deep pitfalls along that path. True hope has no room for delusion. Clear-eyed, hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.' - The Anatomy of Hope by Dr Jerome Groopman, Dina and Raphael Recanati Professor, Harvard Medical School

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, 19th Century physician, poet and essayist

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." - Author Unknown

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you." - Maori saying

"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." - Old Proverb

"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all." - Martin Luther King, jr.

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller

"To succeed, we must first believe that we can." - Michael Korda

"I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone." - Gale Brook Burket

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment." - Napoleon I

"True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort" - Walter Anderson