Hope Quotes - Page 31

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there is no adequate base. It is prepared to face the consequences of being proved false and say with Paul: If you find the body of Christ, the discussion is finished, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. It leaves absolutely no room for a romantic answer.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

People who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful people.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

When we direct our thoughts properly i.e. 'Things could be worse but aren't', we can control our emotions... i.e. and feel relieved, grateful, satisfied, hopeful and happy

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

I'm a hopeless fu**ing romantic. That's a part of me that a lot of people don't know about. They know everything there is to know about another part of me, but not a thing about my heart.'- Tommy Lee

None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.

Great hopes make great men.

Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.

Hope is a talent like any other.

For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust

Another world is possible!' ... Another world is also necessary, for this one is unjust, unsustainable, and unsafe. It's up to us to envision, fight for, and create that world, a world of freedom, real justice, balance, and shared abundance, a world woven in a new design.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

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