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Quotes About Hope

I shall never have the garden I have in my mind, but that for me is the joy of it; certain things can never be realized and so all the more reason to attempt them.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
this is how to love a man; and if this doesn't work there are other ways, and if they don't work don't feel too bad about giving up
~ Jamaica Kincaid
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
~ James A. Baldwin
Fellow citizens! God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
~ James A. Garfield
I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.
~ James A. Garfield
God came down in Jesus not to prepare us for the next world but to set us free to live in this world the way Jesus lived, which was the costly way of reconciling love, relentless hope, reverberating joy.
~ Unknown
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
~ James A. Michener
Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.
~ James A. Owen
Always, always ask for what you want. Because the Universe might surprise you — and give it to you.
~ James A. Owen
To come devotedly into the depths of a subject, your respect for it increasing in every step and your whole heart weakening apart with shame upon yourself in your dealing with it : To know at length better and better and at length into the bottom of your soul your unworthiness of it : Let me hope in any case that it is something to have begun to learn.
~ James Agee
And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.
~ James Agee
In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again.
~ James Agee
Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.
~ James Agee
Don't be such a party-pooper, missy --when you're well and truly screwed, either you just sit pissing yourself or you invent some reason to hope.
~ James Alan Gardner
Every burden is a blessing.
~ James Allen
The dreamers are the saviours of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know.
~ James Allen
The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
~ James Allen
Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.
~ James Allen
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.
~ Luella F. Phean
To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
~ Luigi Barzini
Life is hunger, thirst, and passion for an ultimate object, which looms over the horizon, and yet always lies beyond it. When this is recognized, man becomes a tireless searcher.
~ Unknown
Ma se è una tela sporcata, tagliata e rotta, bisogna prima ricostituirla. Questo ricostituire, questo lavorare per ricostituire, che sarebbe persino un perdere tempo, questo è la croce.
~ Unknown
Invece, questo desiderio di egemonia, la speranza posta nell'egemonia non è la speranza posta in Cristo!
~ Unknown
Nothing is impossible Mario, you just gotta believe
~ Unknown