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Quotes About Hope

Action is the antidote to despair.
~ Joan Baez
Wishing does not make a poor man rich.
~ Arab proverb
How, then, find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
God's in His Heaven - All's right with the world!
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Nearer, my God, to Thee - Nearer to Thee - E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!
~ Sarah Flower Adams
A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing, Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing.
~ Martin Luther
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
~ Bible
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
~ Goethe
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
~ Billy Wilder
The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.
~ Harry Kemp
Men cannot for long live hopefully unless they are embarked upon some great unifying enterprise, one for which they may pledge their lives, their fortunes and their honor.
~ C. A. Dykstra
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Having a dream isn't stupid. ... It's not having a dream that's stupid.
~ Anonymous
The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.
~ Owen Meredith
There is no such thing as expecting too much.
~ Susan Cheever
It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.
~ Sheila Ballantyne
I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.
~ Jacqueline Cochran
What else are we gonna live by if not dreams? We need to believe in something. What would really drive us crazy is to believe this reality we run into every day is all there is. If I don't believe that there's a happy ending out there-that will-you-marry-me in the sky-I can't keep working today.
~ Jill Robinson
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.
~ Les Brown
Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I many not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
~ Alan Paton
God will provide - if only God would provide until he provides.
~ Yiddish Proverb
I am afraid I shall not find Him, but I shall still look for Him. If He exists, He may be appreciative of my efforts.
~ Jules Renard
Give God time.
~ The Koran