Hope Quotes

It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

Now, as never before, hundreds of millions of men and women-who had formerly believed that stoic resignation in the face of hunger and disease and darkness was the best one could could do-have come alive with a new sense that the means are at hand with which to make for themselves a better life.

The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.

America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the ideas of the Founding Fathers, went on to become a beacon to all the oppressed and poor of the world.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us

What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.

Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness.

You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

We wait always for something that does not come.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

A world of possibilities awaits you. Keep turning the page.

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

When you see the setting, wait for the rising. Why worry about a sunset or a fading moon?

We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.

Every new day begins with possibilities.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about "after the war," but it's as if I'm talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true.

The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.

Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories--until I've radically improved my circumstances. Then...then you'll see, I'll rise from the dead!

Action is hope. There is no hope without action.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust!

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Gather quicklyOut of darknessAll the songs you knowAnd throw them at the sunBefore they meltLike snow.

Hope is passion for what is possible.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don't quit!

[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.

We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.

All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

Above all shadows rides the sun.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]

Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.

Africa is on the move; a new Africa is emerging!