But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Marriage is the death of hope.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

They say miracles are past.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

The future will be better tomorrow.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.