Quotes About Hope

I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

Let not your heart be troubled.

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all pains, the greatest pain it is to love, but love in vain.

The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Oh! may each youthful bosom, catch the sacred fire.

I have as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

To help all created things, that is the measure of our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

We not only need to be willing to give, but also to be open to receiving from others.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

In essence, the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

When the historian, Charles A. Beard was asked about the lessons from history, he said there were four: 1. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. 2. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. 3. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small. 4. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest.

One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

Some one once said to me, 'Reverend Schuller, I hope you live to see all your dreams fulfilled.' I replied, T hope not, because if I live and all my dreams are fulfilled, I'm dead.' It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom.

Never despair.

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.

Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it "lights the candle" instead of "cursing the darkness."

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.