Quotes About Hope

I have never met a ragged boy in the street without feeling that I may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat. - President James A. Garfield

She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

In Garfield's experience, education was salvation. It had freed him from grinding poverty. It had shaped his mind, forged paths, created opportunities where once there had been none. Education, he knew, led to progress, and progress was his country's only hope of escaping its own painful past. In

desperate people can make themselves believe anything!

Choosing to believe that something larger than you is at work in, through, and for you is the starting point for all the good things life has to offer. Trust this larger life to support and sustain you. Trust a wisdom greater than your limited knowledge to be provider and guide in all situations, for the highest good of all.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber

Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people and people change things.

Fear believes . . . no one is listening and no one cares. Love believes . . . in prayer.

Frequently, the most encouraging option comes out of love and choosing to believe that a benign universe will respond to our attitude of faith.

I am living proof that dreams come true. I am an ordinary person leading an extraordinary life.

Esperar. Otra vez. ¿Os habéis parado a contar cuánto tiempo perdemos en nuestra vida solo esperando algo?

Why have the Soviets stood aside and allowed us to settle Berlin, Vietnam and the Middle East? One, because the United States is big, mean and tough as hell and they know it. Two, the obsession with peace in the USSR. Twenty million Russian people were killed during World War II. We must have the fear elements working, but also the hope element.

God helps me--that's what I think--and then I am calm.

Happy are those who dream dreams And are willing to pay the price to see them come true

The biblical revelation proclaims from start to finish that the old self is a lost cause, and that man faces the future with hope only as a new creature, as a reborn self, spiritually enlivened to the supernatural world;

History's most unusual and momentous news continues to be the message that the holy God provides sinful man a way of escape from the damning consequences of sin, and proffers him a new kind of life fit for both time and eternity. This ongoing global news is more important than the Allies' rollback of Hitler and the Nazis, or modern technology's putting a man on the moon, or scientific research's latest medical breakthrough.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?

Never lose the hope that work done with love will lead to a good end.

Colui a cui il destino impone di fare la sua strada deve percorrerla armato soltanto di speranza e con gli occhi bene aperti, consapevole della sua solitudine e del pericolo che gli abissi della solitudine rappresentano.

Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

It is not for nothing that our age cries out for the redeemer personality, for the one who can emancipate himself from the grip of the collective and save at least his own soul, who lights a beacon of hope for others, proclaiming that here is at least one man who has succeeded in extricating himself from the fatal identity with the group psyche.