Quotes About Hope

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

The great hope of society is individual character.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

I exhort you to be of good cheer.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.

I desire no other evidence of the truth to Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

... That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.

Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Every crowd has a silver lining.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility.

One faces the future with one's past.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.