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Quotes About Hope

When there is no vision, people perish.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted land, to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Prosperity is just around the corner.
~ Herbert Hoover
Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins.
~ Arthur Chapman
Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience.
~ Samuel Johnson
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it, but do not dare confess it to themselves.
~ Anonymous
I wish I knew the good of wishing.
~ Henry S. Leigh
As you cannot do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.
~ Terence
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course, I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.
~ Erma Bombeck
The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again, Sweet wife. No, never come over again.
~ Charles Kingsley
Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
~ Voltaire
Anxiety never yet successfully bridged any chasm.
~ Giovanni Ruffini
T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
~ A. J. Cronin
Be, therefore, not anxious about tomorrow; for tomorrow will be anxious for the things of itself.
~ Bible
If we would keep filling our minds with the picture of happy things ahead, many worries and anxieties, and perhaps ill health, would naturally melt away.... Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.
~ George Matthew Adams
A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about.
~ Anonymous
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.
~ Josh Billings
The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
~ James Russell Lowell
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
~ Dolly Parton
If you want to see the sun shine, you have to weather the storm.
~ Frank Lane
He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
~ Yiddish Proverb