Quotes About Hope

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

Honest Winter, snow-clad, and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; But that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping gloom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honour of May how often has it robbed me of heart and hope?

No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not one jot. The possibility is always there.

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that; one stitch at a time taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right, like embroidery.

Even a small star shines in the darkness.

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.

Tomorrow never yet On any human being rose or set.

Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

They also serve who only stand and wait.

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

Our visions begin with our desires.

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.

It's our dreams that keep us going, that separate us from the beasts. I wouldn't even want to live if I thought it was all just eating and sleeping and taking off my clothes.

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

No vision and you perish; No ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.