Quotes About Hope

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of life.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.

A seed knows how to wait... A seed is alive while it waits.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

But while Nelson Mandela's work is sadly done, his dream is unfinished.

Our short film 'Bareilly Ki Beti' is inspired from the incident which occurred in Bareilly, where a couple while digging a grave for their stillborn found a live baby girl buried two to three feet down. She was rushed to the hospital and she survived.

We do need a vision that's uplifting, even whilst being realistic. And there's a lot in the world that already speaks to that, like tikkun olam in the Jewish faith.

During the couple of years it took to write 'At The Bottom of Everything', I decided, on the sort of hopeful whim that occasionally overtakes me, to sign up for piano lessons.

I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

My sister and mom are both cancer survivors. If they're going to whip it, so am I.

When I left 'Being Human,' that was painful because the show was going on without me. But with 'Him & Her,' we finished on such a high together that if it is the end, it couldn't have stopped at a better time. But I hope with 'Him & Her' that we'll get another crack of the whip: that the writer might change his mind and write some more.

I am that lucky woman who has been living my life all my life. Anything can happen now. Anything. And it will be only whip cream and delightful things. Even in the conflict and the hardship.

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.