Quotes about Hope

“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.”

“A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.”

“I smoked for almost 10 years. I really regret that. Thankfully, I came out on the other side. I hope my lungs are repairing themselves now.”

“I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.”

“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.”

“The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.”

“When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.”

“To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.”

“I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!”

“The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.”

“God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.”

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

“Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.”

“Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.”

“Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.”

“In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.”

“I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.”

“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.”

“I want to be remembered as, I hope, an amazing husband and a great father.”

“Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.”

“The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.”