Quotes About Hope

Perhaps our brightest hope for the future lies in the lessons of the past. The people who have come to this country have made America, in the words of one perceptive writer, 'a heterogeneous race but a homogeneous nation.

The stories of past courage can define that ingredient- they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot provide courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough—more than enough—of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success.

We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain future now.

But let us begin. Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation'- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

If we fail, then freedom fails.

Hope and fear seemed blended in every face, instantaneously alternating, some with revengeful hate…others with lighted hope.

The Feast of Trumpets anticipates the future regathering of Israel (vv. 23–25).

People need change now, today. Even one more child dying from hunger, one more life blighted by poverty, is one too many.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.

You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You have very considerable natural advantages. You have nothing to fear from life. A day will come when these recent unhappy years may seem no more than that cloud-stain over there upon Chesil Bank. You shall stand in sunlight—and smile at your own past sorrows.

Comprendo que soy terriblemente cobarde. No quiero morir, porque amo la vida apasionadamente. ¡Nunca había sabido hasta hoy cuánta es mi ansia de vivir! Si consigo librarme de este infierno, jamás podré volver a ser lo que era antes.

Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it, I still think I can escape.

I have hope. But it's all an illusion.

M. How do you think Christianity started? Or anything else? With a little group of people who didn't give up hope.

Jamás he sentido, tanto como aquí, en este calabozo, el misterio del futuro. ¿Que ocurrirá...? ¿Qué ocurrirá?

daca am fi pasari, ne am inalta si am zbura, ne am pierde in albastru. Dar nu suntem pasari. - totusi, aripile ar putea sa ne creasca. - cum adica? - exista sentimente care ne inalta deasupra pamantului. N ai grija, o sa ai aripi!

To every man of great age - to Sir Wlater Bentham himself - the idea of suicide has once at least been present in the ante-room of his soul; on the threshold, waiting to enter, held out from the inmost chamber by some chance reality, some vague fear, some painful hope. The Man of Property, p. 363

The comfortable estate of widowhood, is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits

I do not know why sorrows come and burning teardrops fall; I only know God still is God And watches over all.

Women are happy when they believe their needs will be met. When a woman is upset, overwhelmed, confused, exhausted, or hopeless what she needs most is simple companionship. She needs to feel she is not alone. She needs to feel loved and cherished.

Darkness cannot be directly removed, but it automatically disappears when you turn on the light.