Hope Quotes - Page 10

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Staying in a hopeless and miserable situation doesn't make you loyal, it just makes you miserable.

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.

Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.

Hope for everything, expect nothing.

When you stop hoping you start settling.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

In a time of destruction, create something.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

As you train and as you develop your talents, you do get better, hopefully, or you get out of the business.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?