Quotes About Hope

We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.

Don't curse the darkness - light a candle.

What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master calls a butterfly.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

So long as one does not despair, so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly, things work out fairly well in the end.

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.

Lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you.

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Failure really isn't terrible if you can say to yourself, hey, I know I'm gonna be successful at what I want to do someday. Failure doesn't become a big hangup then because it's only temporary. If failure is absolute, then it would be a disaster, but as long as it's only temporary you can just go and achieve almost anything.

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.