Quotes About Hope

There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments.

No matter how dark the cloud, there is always a thin, silver lining, and that is what we must look for. The silver lining will come, if not to us then to next generation or the generation after that. And maybe with that generation the lining will no longer be thin.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and hope.

Trees are living symbols of peace and hope. A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to be grounded...

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope. We also secure the future for our children.

But the law's dream - anyone's dream - would be to turn the clock back and stop the bad thing from happening in the first place.

Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician's visit, irrespective of the nature of the illness.

As to which question to choose, to some degree the question chooses you. It's the one that resonates with you for some reason only you understand. What will make it a beautiful question for you, and one worth staying with, is the passion you feel for it. Look for a question that is "ambitious yet actionable"—or, as the physicist Edward Witten puts it, a question that's hard enough to be interesting, but realistic enough that you have some hope of answering it.

Bugger this. I want a better world.

America's present need is not heroics, but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution, but restoration.

To gain the right to pray when it rains, one must also pray when the sun shines.

Most Gamblers start with a little, and strive to turn it into a lot : Invariably they end up turning a lot into a little

The heights to which we aspire - often prove not as lofty as those that transpire.

At the end of the day, it isn't where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I'm going and never have been before.

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

When he hung over the death-bed of his infant son Ibrahim, resignation to the Will of God was exhibited in his conduct under this keenest of afflictions; and the hope of soon rejoining his child in paradise was his consolation. When he followed him to the grave, he invoked his spirit, in the awful examination of the tomb, to hold fast to the foundations of the faith, the Unity of God, and his own mission as a Prophet.

If, however, I can by any lucky chance, in these days of evil, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sorrow, if I can now and then penetrate through the gathering film of misanthropy, prompt a benevolent view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow beings and himself, surely, surely, I shall not then have written entirely in vain.

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.

When do we give up, Julie?" he said. "I don't know," I said. "Maybe you can't even if you want to.

I need his dreams. Life isn't life without them. And if he can give me the dreams, I think I can hold the rest together.