Hope Quotes - Page 15

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Lose hope and you die. They may not bury you for awhile, but without hope you are dead inside. The only way to face the future is to fly straight into it on the wings of hope....hope is the energy of the soul. Hope is the power of tomorrow.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.

I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the road blocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.

One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming.

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

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.

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."

Always have Faith. Always have Hope.

No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

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

And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive

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

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.