Bryan Adams Quotes

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.

You can't do nothing but try if you still got it in your heart.

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

The triumph of hope over experience.

Nothing's hopeless except never trying.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.

Hope is critical to both faith and charity. When disobedience, disappointment, and procrastination erode faith, hope is there to uphold our faith. When frustration and impatience challenge charity, hope braces our resolve and urges us to care for our fellowmen even without expectation of reward. The brighter our hope, the greater our faith. The stronger our hope, the purer our charity.

There is no hope without endeavor.

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.

If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.

"Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor; but what's the good of my having a anchor, if I can't find no bottom to let it go in?"

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

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.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

It was never easy, but I always tried my best and kept complaints out of my heart by holding tightly onto the hope that one day, I would read and write.

I think any time someone's dreams are crushed, there's the people who can fight to still try and fulfill those dreams and then there's the people who just give up.

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.