Quotes About Hope

I rave no more 'gainst Time or Fate, For lo, my own shall come to me. Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends I seek are seeking me. What matter if I stand alone? I wait with joy the coming years; My heart shall reap where it hath sown, What is mine shall know my face. Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high Can keep my own away from me.

Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on.  Dreams are true while they last, And do not we live in dreams? – TENNYSON.

Orison Swett Marden

No one is mocked with the yearning for that which they have no ability to attain.

I am success. Though hungry, cold, ill-clad, I wander for a while, and I smile and say: 'It is but for a time. I shall be glad tomorrow, for good fortune comes my way. God is my Father. He has wealth untold; His wealth is mine, health, happiness and gold.

There is no suffering, except remorse, so fatal as that which comes from the consciousness of strangled ambition, blasted hope, stifled aspiration. To be conscious that we possess decided ability for some particular calling, and to be compelled by circumstances, year after year, to be chained to drudgery which the heart loathes, requires supreme courage.

books. They are friends to the lonely, companions to the deserted, joy to the joyless, hope to the hopeless, good cheer to the disheartened, a helper to the helpless. They bring light into darkness, and sunshine into shadow.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope. --HELEN KELLER

We tend to get what we expect, and if we expect nothing we get nothing. The stream cannot rise higher than its fountainhead;

Quit fearing things that may never happen, just as you would quit any bad practise which has caused you suffering. Fill your mind with courage, hope, and confidence.

The discouraged have their backs turned toward the light, so that all the black shadows fall across their path.

It is said that long livers are great hopers. If you keep your hope bright in spite of discouragements, and meet all difficulties with a cheerful face, it will be very difficult for age to trace its furrows on your brow. There is longevity in cheerfulness.

I have always had this fear, the fear that love is not enough. One must be able to love yet also to live together and to live in this world, which will probably always remain cruel.

I didn't want to see you. They told me. I was afraid that I'd still love you. I hoped that you would.

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

Faith doesn't mean that you never doubt. It only means that you never act upon your doubts.

People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world. What the hell, maybe they can.

I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence you to a lifetime of working and suffering for the sake of your dreams. I only hope that someday you won't declare me innocent of the crime of loving you.

People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.

Will people really go?" "People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time. I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia. But it keeps not ending. So far, so good.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.