Quotes About Hope

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.

We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

Get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the cloud, and, when you have found it, continue to look at it, rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help you over many hard places.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

For me, at least, there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until, by and by, out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result.

If you want your ship to come in, you must build a dock.

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

Fly the pleasure that bites tomorrow.

The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes, These things can never die.

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

God will help you if you try, and you can if you think you can.

When people asked, I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick, the worse I got. Finally, I started saying, "I'm getting better." It took a while, but then I started to feel better, too.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Optimism is an intellectual choice.

What after all has maintained the human race on this old globe, despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not the faith in new possibilities and the courage to advocate them?

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Go, little letter, apace, apace, Fly; Fly to the light in the valley below - Tell my wish to her dewy blue eye.

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.