hope quotes

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.

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.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Marriage is the death of hope.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

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

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

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.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single 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.

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.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

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

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

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.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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.

Hope is a waking dream.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.