Anne Lamott Quotes

Just go and keep auditioning and keep trying and keep believing things will turn around, and it always does.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

I love the idea of someone getting knocked down repeatedly, but they still believe in love.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

When times are down, keep believing, keep working hard, and things will pick up.

What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don't give up the ship, we have only begun to fight, it's always darkest before the dawn.

Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

My advice to you is never stop believing.

I'm one of the most optimistic persons in the world. I always believed that - there's another shot, another chance. In boxing, I never gave up. I kept trying, kept trying. Even when things seemed so dim, I continued to push forward to make something happen in my favor.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

While there is life, there is hope.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

I never give up hope.

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!

While there's life, there's hope.

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.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Hope dies last.

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.