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Quotes About Hope

All promise outruns performance.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today unbind the captive,So only are ye unbound;Lift up a people from the dust,Trump of their rescue, sound!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.
~ Ram Charan
Between the railroad tracks suicidal flowers grow. .
~ Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Sois el verdadero marchamo que precinta el envío de los días felices. Ya están ahí las golondrinas y las golondrinas nunca se equivocan, decimos al veros, pero el buen tiempo se retasa y entoces pensamos que os habéis adelantado por abnegación, por dar fe a los endermos y covalecientes haciéndoles suponer tiempo bueno y seco.
~ Ramón Gómez de la Serna
The heart hoped that India would survive, but the head worried that it wouldn't. The place was too complicated, too confusing – a nation, one might say, that was unnatural. In truth, ever since the country
~ Ramachandra Guha
Lathi goli khayenge, phir bhi Bambai layenge
~ Ramachandra Guha
The world over, the rhetoric of modern democratic politics has been marked by two rather opposed rhetorical styles. The first appeals to hope, to popular aspirations for economic prosperity and social peace. The second appeals to fear, to sectional worries about being worsted or swamped by one's historic enemies.
~ Ramachandra Guha
So the UCRW commandeered a bunch of film projectors from Delhi, and set them up in Kurukshetra. Among the movies shown were Disney specials featuring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. With large cloth screens allowing for two-way projection, crowds of up to 15,000 could watch a single show. This 'two-hour break from reality', commented a social worker, 'was a lifesaver. The refugees forgot their shock experiences and misery for two golden hours of laughter.
~ Ramachandra Guha
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
~ Ramakrishna
It will come all right in the end.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Perfect love happens not when you're ready but when you least expect, at the most imperfect moment under unpredictable circumstances! Expect Not, Trust Existence!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Did you know Radha still waits, impatient for you, in Vrindavana? Like a wraith beneath the trees, since you didn't say farewell.
~ Ramesh Menon
Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.
~ Ramona C. Carroll