Best 7817 quotes in «hope quotes» category

Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

That whisper you keep hearing is the universe trying to get your attention.

Thanks be to God, there is hope to-day; this very hour you can choose Him and serve Him.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

The article goes on later to say, "Hope is not then something for the future alone, a sort of wishful thinking aout what might be; it offers meaning for us today. Christian hope is founded on certain faith that life is not a meaningless riddle, but a mystery progressively revealed and finding the fulfillment in the redemption won by Jesus Christ and offered to all peoples.

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.

The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.

The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

The mighty hopes that make us men.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

The most important word in the English language is hope.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

The night is past,-joy cometh with the morrow.

The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.

The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.

The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.

The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man.

The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.