Quotes About Hope

A boy's will is the wind's will,And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.

Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer.

Christ save us all from a death like this,On the reef of Norman's Woe!

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, — act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.

Let us, then, be up and doing,With a heart for any fate;Still achieving, still pursuing,Learn to labor and to wait.

Learn to labour and to wait.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.