Hope is the Thing With Petals: Quotable Hope

Hope is the Thing With Petals: Quotable Hope
50
Quotes selected and digital images created by Alysa Cummings

OncoLink

Regardless of how hurt or wounded the individual may be, there exists a healthy part of the self straining to flower like a seed that takes root and naturally pushes through the earth toward sunlight.
- Marcia Hain

Every flower must grow through dirt.
- Anonymous

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small. We haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
- Georgia O'Keeffe

Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success, for those of us who hope strongest have within us the gift of miracles.
- Sydney Bremer

Hope lifts our spirits like the sight of a lovely rose blooming above its thorns,
- Evelyn Locke Irvin

...if life is to be sustained, hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded,
trust impaired.
- Erik H. Erikson

...So you plant your own garden and decorate
Your own soul, instead of waiting
For someone to bring you flowers...
- Veronica A. Shoffstall

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
- Les Brown

...the nature of hope is to imagine what has not yet come to pass, but still is possible. To use an expression from Martin Buber, - hope imagines the real,'
- Leslie Farber

I have a small grain of hope-
One small crystal that gleams
Clear colors out of transparency.
I need more...
- Denise Levertov

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!
- Sid Caesar

We must become the change we want to see.
- Gandhi

Hope/is the belief/that one hand/reaching to another/can eventually/touch the moon.
- Nicholas Mazza

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller

Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more;
- Swedish Proverb

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu

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

He who limps is still walking.
- Stanislaw J. Lec

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
- Emil Brunner

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
- George Iles

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
- Author Unknown

When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
- Author Unknown

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.
- Author Unknown

Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well- lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.
- Francis Gray

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

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

Life is a stream/on which we strew/petal by petal the flower of our heart...
- Amy Lowell

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

An essential element of hope is the belief and conviction that one's story will be heard. Even if it is a story one does not want to tell.
- Ted Bowman

In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window.
- Barbara Kingsolver

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
- Robert Ingersoll

11/8/04

OncoLink is designed for educational purposes only and is not engaged in rendering medical advice or professional services. The information provided through OncoLink should not be used for diagnosing or treating a health problem or a disease. It is not a substitute for professional care. If you have or suspect you may have a health problem or have questions or concerns about the medication that you have been prescribed, you should consult your health care provider.


Information Provided By: www.oncolink.org | © 2025 Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania