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Quotes About Hope

I'm in love with the potential of miracles. For me, the safest place is out on a limb.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
~ Victor Hugo
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
~ Emily Dickinson
May God ... let me strive for attainable things.
~ Pindar
I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.
~ Wilma Pearl Mankiller
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.
~ Luella F. Phean
We Can't Afford to Doubt Ourselves I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door-or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
~ Joan Rivers
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
~ Christian N. Barnard
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
~ Eugene Ionesco
If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.
~ Ruth Gordon
Despair is criminal.
~ Samuel Johnson
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint or hope of hearing?
~ Martin Marty
The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.
~ Jules Jusserano
I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
~ Preston Bradley
Don't give up the ship!
~ James Lawrence
All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
~ J. H. Vincent
Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.
~ Isaac Watts
Faith is the evidence of things not seen.
~ Bible
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
~ Helen Keller
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
~ George Edward Woodberry
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
~ Stanley Bladwin
If a blade of grass can grow in a concrete walk and a fig tree in the side of a mountain cliff, a human being empowered with an invincible faith can survive all odds the world can throw against his tortured soul.
~ Robert H. Schuller
Faith is believing before receiving.
~ Alfred A. Montapert