Quotes About Hope

To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.

Thy destiny is only that of man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god.

The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe

When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.

Are there times in our lives when we think we have been forsaken by God, or by our fellow men, or by our families? Those are moments when we have to turn to Christ and endure.

I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.

Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man.

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?

Nothing but religious faith has been able to save men from despair.