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Quotes About Hope

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
~ Mason Cooley
In esse I am nothing; in posse I am everything.
~ John Adams
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
~ Norman Cousins
If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.
~ Thomas a Kempis
No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
~ William Cowper
The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its compensations in ever-growing calm.
~ George R. Gissing
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.
~ William James
Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.
~ Arthur Gingold
Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.
~ George Jean Nathan
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.
~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
Trust in God and do something.
~ Mary Lyon
It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.
~ Agatha Christie
Cast thy burden on the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.
~ Bible
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Even in the deepest sinking there is the hidden purpose of an ultimate rising. Thus it is for all men, from none is the source of light withheld unless he himself withdraws from it. Therefore the most important thing is not to despair.
~ Hasidic saying
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?
~ Bible
The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.
~ Molly Haskell
When things come to the worse, they generally mend.
~ Susanna Moodie
I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes, you'll know you're dead.
~ Tennessee Williams
Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.
~ C. V. Wedgwood
Our trials are tests; our sorrows pave the way for a fuller life when we have earned it.
~ Jerome P. Fleishman
This struggle of people against their conditions, this is where you find the meaning in life.
~ Rose Chernin