Quotes About Hope

I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.

To revive a man is no slight thing.

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

Man believes in the possible, but God believes in the impossible.

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen.

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.

A man full of hope will be full of action.

The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'

When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others.

There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men.

What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

Men change, fashions change, conditions and circumstances change, but God never changes.

Because God is love, He could not completely cast man aside.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.

Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?

What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?

God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.