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Quotes About Hope

I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
~ Carl Sandburg
All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
~ Al Alvarez
"To think the way you do," he said smiling, "you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope." "On both, perhaps."
~ Albert Camus
Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.
~ Albert Camus
The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.
~ Bentley Little
I'm a good person and I don't think I'll be left on my own. I don't know when I'll meet a man - I think I'm rushing it. But I am tired of working and not having someone.
~ Beyonce Knowles
Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.
~ Bruce Springsteen
The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.
~ C. S. Lewis
Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.
~ Margaret Oliphant
Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.
~ Martin Buber
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
~ Matthew Arnold
The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.
~ Max Frisch
Let us be happy too when we see a happy man, because happiness is a candle light in this dark universe!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Let the sick man enter into the Side of Jesus and His most holy Wounds; let him not be afraid, but combat manfully, and he will come forth victorious.
~ Philip Neri
Hope is a working-man's dream.
~ Pliny the Elder
Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.
~ Robert Falconer
Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.
~ Helen Keller
She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.
~ Huey Lewis
He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.
~ James Freeman Clarke