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Quotes About Belief

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.
~ Robert Altman
Where there is hope, there is no despair.
~ Gene Tierney
That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.
~ Christopher Moore
The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.
~ Maxwell Maltz
The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
~ John F. Kennedy
One drop of that ocean is Hope, and the rest is fear.
~ Rumi
Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.
~ Jane Austen
I think the one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope. If you put me in a position where you took all my hope away, I'm not sure I could make it through the day.
~ Max Lucado
I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.
~ Farrah Fawcett
It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.
~ Richard Sibbes
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
~ Charles Bukowski, Factotum
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.
~ Jerome Groopman
Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
~ Tom Shadyac
Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.
~ C. S. Lewis
The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
It is better to die in hope than live in despair.
~ Yuna
Faith speaks when hope is disassembled; faith lives when hope dies dead.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.
~ Ralph Marston
Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!
~ Lu Xun
The atheist has no hope.
~ James Freeman Clarke
Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!
~ Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie