Quotes About Hope

The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune.

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

Love is a beautiful dream.

know that the people who live the longest and the richest lives are looking ahead and not behind.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.

i'm not always optimistic but i am always hopeful.

Hope reflects the state of your soul rather than the circumstances surrounding your days. Praise God and your soul gets stronger.

And in the end, Jody again has his pony—but at the terrible cost of learning even the most wondrous gifts are sometimes impermanent.

Sometimes from sorrow, for no reason, you sing. from "Cutting Loose

They say that history is going on somewhere. They say it won't stop. I have held One picture still for a long time and waited.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

Yes It could happen any time, tornado, earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen. Or sunshine, love, salvation. It could, you know. That's why we wake and look out - no guarantees in this life. But some bonuses, like morning, like right now, like noon, like evening.

Most Americans express more hope for their own prospects than for their children's—or the nation's

Mary McCarthy that "The happy ending is our national belief

The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.

Anxieties do not end in death. Anxieties end in God.

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne.

What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they'll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.