Quotes About Hope

As I drove away, I felt deeply comforted knowing that magical things were still living in the world.

A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

The happiest day—the happiest hourMy sear'd and blighted heart hath known,The highest hope of pride and power,I feel hath flown.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Take this kiss upon the brow and, in parting from you now, thus much let me avow -- you are not wrong who deem that my days have been a dream yet if hope has flown away in a night, or in a day, in a vision, or in none, is it therefore the less gone all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Did you ever try to pray for somebody? That their lives might be changed?

For all prayer is answered. Don't tell God how to answer it. Make thy wants known to Him. Live as if ye expected them to be answered. For He has given, "What ye ask in my name, believing, that will my Father in heaven give to thee.

Then, to be able to remember the sunset, to be able to remember a beautiful conversation, a beautiful deed done where hope and faith were created, to remember the smile of a babe, the blush of a rose, the harmony of a song--a bird's call; these are creative. For if they are a part of thyself, they bring you closer and closer to God.

DREAMS Never by many are marvels wrought, By one or two are the dreams first caught. . . The dreamer must toil when the odds are great, Must stand to failure and work and wait. Must keep his faith though he stand alone, Until the truth of his dream is known.

Degenerate sons and daughters,Life is too strong for you—It takes life to love life.

What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for you— It takes life to love Life.

Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.

The old grim story so many times enacted – for the poor human race has always longed for a Redeemer to take up the burdens that human people themselves alone must carry.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing—but we all do and call it Hope.

Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave.

When conditions are such that life offers no earthly hope, somewhere somehow, men must find refuge. Then they fly from the terror without to the citadel within, which famine and pestilence and fire and sword cannot shake. What Goethe calls the inner universe, can live by its own laws, create its own security, be sufficient unto itself, when once reality is denied to the turmoil of the world without.

One good thing, however, was there - Hope. It was the only good thing the casket had held among the many evils, and it remains to this day mankind's sole comfort in misfortune.

La speranza è il mio Spirito guida".

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.