Hope Quotations Quotes

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and use it to hang your troubles.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The bad chapters of your life lead to the good ones if you keep turning the pages.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When night comes do not despair; rejoice instead and say to yourself, “At least now I can see the stars.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If seeds despaired in their darkest hours, they would never rise to enjoy their brightest days.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your deepest scars tell the world of your greatest triumphs.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have the power to put a smile on one person’s face, you have the power to change the world.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The beauty all around you is insignificant in comparison to the beauty within you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your mind is a ship, it can sail across the universe as long as you don't allow negative thoughts to sink it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The calmest part of the storm is not in its eye, but in your own soul.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Courage lightens distress, hope alleviates grief, doubt aggravates affliction, fear worsens anguish, worry magnifies misery, and faith overthrows despair.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Seeds are proof that God puts within you what is supposed to enrich the world around you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The sky does not despair when a star falls, it makes room for a new one.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Singing in a storm silences thunder’s threats.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A bird does not give up flying today because it couldn't find any worms yesterday.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Rainbows are birthed in storms, not in sunshine.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Count your smiles, not your frowns.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you are going through hell, keep walking until you reach heaven.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You are a seed, that is why God plants you in adversity when He wants you to grow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

In storms look for rainbows, in sunshine prepare for storms.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Harsh winters precede pleasant springs.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The dark skies of despair are no match for the bright skies of hope.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When you are at your lowest God is getting ready to take you to your highest.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Today's tears are an investment into tomorrow's smiles.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When you have nothing, be hopeful; when you have little, be grateful; when you have much, be sensible; when you have everything, be humble.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds will rise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A storm is an artist who passes by on her way to paint your rainbow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Heat makes things expand, that is why life sometimes throws us into a fiery furnace.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Though you are as a drop in the ocean, without you, the universe would be empty.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A tree does not despair when a few of its leaves fall off because there is more room for greener ones to take their place.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Thank the past for all the lessons it taught you, anticipate the future for all the blessings it has in store for you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Hope is a better friend than despair.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You don’t have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Count your summers, not your winters.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Through the darkest paths, you can reach the brightest heavens and this marvellous possibility will keep you full of life even in the middle of most horrible utter darknesss!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Work keeps us occupied. Faith keeps us fortified. Hope keeps us gratified. Love keeps us satisfied.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo