Quotes About Hope

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.

No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

The best compliment we can pay our past is to prophetically and bravely face today and tomorrow.

The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, love.

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings.

And now, Lord, what wait I for?

The present is the symbol and vehicle of the future.

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day, for it is life, the very life of life.

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.

Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.

As we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow, and when it comes, it, too, is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow, and so the cheat is prolonged, even to the grave.

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

Today, well lived, will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.

I have always been waiting for something better-sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me.

Just do your best today and tomorrow will come ... tomorrow's going to be a busy day, a happy day.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.