Hope Quotes

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose in most lives) when I have felt for a time as ...

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for t...

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All m...

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turn...

His will be done, as done it surely will be, whether we humble ourselves to resignation or not. The ...

Renewed hope followed renewed effort: It shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, faded,...

I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleas...

The hopes that, in my own heart sown,And cherished by such sun and rain,As Joy and transient Sorrow ...

...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeli...

I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think...

For once a hope was realized. I held in my hand a morsel of real solid joy: not a dream, not an imag...

. . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this hou...

I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would ha...

The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right i...

My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of ...

Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the r...

Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, b...

For if the darkness and corruption leaveA vestige of the thoughts that once I had,Better by far you ...

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a sym...

I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The S...

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

As long as they could still be moved by a minor chord, or brought to a crisis of tears by scenes of ...

Hope is not a strategy

see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted ...

This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up.

Carry the fire.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must acce...

When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle ...

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what yo...

Your emotional state has a tremendous amount to do with sickness, health and well-being. For years, ...

The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the d...

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is t...

Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.

Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that so...

How did we get here? My own suspicion is that we are looking at the final effects of the militarizat...

Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrö...

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it pre...

Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn....

Hope lies in action

Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint...

I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the ha...

Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you think you c...

For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.The only thing that kep...

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has n...

Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it bette...

It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made t...

Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosag...

We live on the leash of our senses.

Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate—love commands a...

The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant ...

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's ...

[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehens...

Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a l...

I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. ...

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your...

I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mo...

Listen Anna, if we don’t believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there’...

ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd bee...

At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do...

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of...

Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time.

Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.

He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durh...

There was something better in life than this rub­bish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big ...

We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.

You call it hope — that fire of fire!It is but agony of desire.

Ah, dream too bright to last! Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise But to be overcast! A voice from out...

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is becau...

... but I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hop...

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. Peop...

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it...

From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist,"...

Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to fee...

I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, defor...

How, Dearest, wilt thou have me for most use?A hope, to sing by gladly? or a fineSad memory, with th...

I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I ...

The temptation is too strong for me. Oh, Lord! where is Thy peace that I believed in, in my childhoo...

Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are...

Your tears are my prayers.

I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make...

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that beli...

Our acceptance with God is sure only through His beloved Son, and good works are but the result of t...

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

But Jesus, our Advocate, presents an effectual plea in behalf of all who by repentance and faith hav...

At the very crisis, when Satan seemed about to triumph, the Son of God came with the embassage of di...

It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God...

Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is...

Hope Was but a timid friend;She sat without the grated den,Watching how my fate would tend,Even as s...