Quotes About Hope

We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.

Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization, so we have to put more hope into the world than despair. Hatred and separation and building walls is not the way to progress. Going backward is not the way to go forward.

I'll just borrow confidence from a future version of myself.

The twenty-first century is a key century for us on this planet. Either we make a world, where all seven billion people have a fair chance in this century - or forget it. If we can't do this, I don't think we are going to make it as a species. Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization, so we have to put more hope into the world than despair. Hatred and separation and building walls is not the way to progress. Going backward is not the way to go forward.

Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization

Attends-toi à l'inattendu! Voilà comment je peux concilier ma crainte de catastrophe réelle avec mon espoir, que je maintiens toujours, envers et contre tout.

There was but a single forlorn hope, and I took it.

It is always a foolish thing to contemplate suicide; for no matter how dark the future may appear today, tomorrow may hold for us that which will alter our whole life in an instant, revealing to us nothing but sunshine and happiness. So, for my part, I shall always wait for tomorrow.

but life would be very miserable indeed were I to spend it in terror of the thing that has not yet happened.

I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand

I wish to Heaven that I might forget. It would be so much easier than to go through life always remembering what might have been.

Tarzan looked across at his companion in misery. While there is life, he said, there is hope, but he grinned as he voiced the ancient truism. Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick returned the other's smile. I fancy, he said, that we are getting short on both.

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It is by our power to suffer, above all, that we are of more value than the sparrows.

We are to think (of the dead) that they pass into a better place and a happier condition.

I take courage," Aeneas said. "Here too there are tears for things, and hearts are touched by the fate of all that is mortal.

Mankind's chief hope of escaping the wrath of whatever divinities were then abroad lay in some magical rite, senseless but powerful, or in some offering made at the cost of pain and grief.

A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.

Do you think you're the only one groping? We're all in the dark together. Wait until God please to clear the sky.

She would search for him. In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. But there was no way there.

That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door. But you also get kind of used to it.

Where there was life, there was also hope.

Glowing. The moon through a doorway. Breath hard in my throat. Heart full to burst. The moon through a doorway. And its light… Hope.

Still falls the Rain - Dark as the world of man, black as our loss - Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails Upon the Cross