Quotes About Hope

For nearly all, there is a source of inner peace that comes with the belief that something of you goes on even if death is indeed the final ending. If not personal immortality, at least children and grandchildren or

All things lie dark in possibility.

Future? Homer said. He was a little embarrassed because all his life, from day to day, he had been busy mapping out a future, even if it was only a future for the next day. Well, he said, I don't know for sure, but I guess I'd like to be somebody some day.

Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most evil there is always much good.

In the time of your life, live---so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for andy life your life touches.

I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.

When I think of the good things still to be written I am glad, for there is no end to them, and I know I myself shall write some of them.

I don't expect you to understand anything I'm telling you. But I know you will remember this—that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world—no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope: I have hope to live, and am prepared to die.

Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it!

Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.

For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

Which dreams, indeed, are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.