Quotes About Hope

As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.

In a lot of ways, if I were ambitious about anything - besides my career - I'd be ambitious about love. Ambitious in the sense that I really hope to find true love.

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!

I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible'.

If you can find ways to give people hope that they can achieve something or make a difference, then there's an opportunity for something good to happen.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

It's easy to give up, and that's the one thing we cannot do. That's what gives me a reason for working: to leave people with a little more courage, with a little hope that has been nourished. Even if, of course, it's going to disappear, whatever touches one isn't lost forever.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

We cannot erase what has happened, but we are building a new future.

All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord.

We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.

On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

Egypt is going through difficult times and we cannot allow it to carry on.

It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.

We cannot keep on carrying burdens of the past and keep ruining our future.

In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.

We cannot give up on working toward that more perfect union.