Hope Quotes

It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness.

~ J.e.b. Spredemann

To get where you want to be, you must first know where you are.

~ Deborah Day

Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening.

~ William Peter Blatty

The child was slender as fleeting hope.

~ William Peter Blatty

As long as they could still be moved by a minor chord, or brought to a crisis of tears by scenes of lovers reunited; as long as there was room in their cautious hearts for games of chance, and laughter in the face of God, that must surely be enough to save them, at the last. If not, there was no hope for any living thing.

~ Clive Barker

There have been bleak nights along my way, many of my own making, but life is all the brighter for them now. To the human eye, without the darkness there are no stars.

~ Sumangali Morhall

You may find that knowledge is not so great a thing as belief or hope.

~ Mark Rude

No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, don't ever, ever, ever lose hope!

~ Jim Yackel

Hope-that unshakable golden belief that things can get better- is why I'm here talking to you now. Without it, we are nothing.

~ Alexander Gordon Smith

Rafe made people find something in themselves...(he) made me dream, he saw what I could hope to be, and helped me hope it. He did that to everyone he knew - especially the ones he knew the best. - Danny

~ Randall Wallace

Try to see the good in all things...

~ M. Howson

Life is not kind. Who are you trying to kid, Kendall?” He sighed.

~ Holly Hood

While there is tea, there is hope.)

~ Arthur Wing Pinero

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

~ Martin Buber

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

~ Henri Bergson

When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.

~ Andy Andrews

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.

~ Henryk Sienkiewicz

…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

~ Jane Austen

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

~ John F. Kennedy

To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

~ Patrick Ness

My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition--broken mirrors and so forth--hope's not based on any kind of logic, it's just unfettered optimism, grounded in nothing but faith in things beyond our control.

~ Benjamin Wood

There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

~ Rachel Simon

The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelties. In such a reading we can find not only war but resistance to war, not only injustice but rebellion against injustice, not only selfishness but self-sacrifice, not only silence in the fact of tyranny but defiance, not only callousness but compassion.Human beings show a broad spectrum of qualities, but it is the worst of these that are usually emphasized, and the result, too often, is to dishearten us, diminish our spirit. And yet, historically, that spirit refuses to surrender.

~ Howard Zinn

She knew then that white was more than a color: It was a cold, pale shade of understanding that seems to take all of your hope away.

~ Vannetta Chapman

One factor that makes human being reluctant to have hope is the fear of disappointment.Do not be afraid of disappointment! The more you afraid of it, the smaller your expectation.Face and overcome the disappointment, even though it felt bitter in soul and pain in body.If you go through and pass it, then your soul and body will be stronger than previous level.When hope emerged, change will occur because of that, both in your soul and in your body.Fear of disapointment is a main enemy of good hope and great change within the human being.Only by facing and overcoming the fear of disapointment, man will become stronger and wiser. ~Salah satu faktor yang membuat manusia enggan untuk berharap adalah rasa takut akan kecewa.Jangan takut dengan kekecewaan! Semakin engkau takut menghadapinya, semakin kecil pengharapanmu.Hadapi dan lawanlah rasa kecewa, meskipun terasa pahit di jiwa dan terasa sakit di tubuh.Jika engkau mampu dan lulus, maka jiwa dan tubuhmu akan lebih kuat dari kondisi sebelumnya.Ketika harapan muncul, perubahan akan terjadi, baik dalam jiwa maupun dalam tubuh manusia.Rasa takut akan kecewa adalah musuh utama pengharapan yang baik dan perubahan yang agung dalam diri manusia.Hanya dengan menghadapi dan melalui rasa takut akan kecewa, seseorang dapat menjadi lebih kuat dan bijaksana.

~ Toba Beta

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

~ Jodi Picoult

We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.

~ Scot Mcknight

The strong lines of the woman's face bespoke hard-won wisdom and courage, and somehow that made watching her more difficult. If such a woman could be defeated by Elantris, what hope was there for Raoden?

~ Brandon Sanderson

Darling it may be a long time before we see one another again. But I want you to know. Every time I’ve said I love you- I meant it. There’s no two ways about it. The crew was talking about what’s ahead of us, but we all agreed on one thing. We’re coming back.

~ Kara Martinelli

There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

~ Adam Smith

Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.

~ Michel O'brien

What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you.

~ David Nicholls

In closing, I hope everything helps show that I wouldn’t be a fade-out or a person who turns to think to drink or dope when things get tough. I believe that anything is possible if you have the combination of love for what you’re doing and the will to sit down and not get up until it’s done….

~ Kaye Gibbons

You can curse the moonCurse the day your’re bornBut the pilot of your plane is youWe’re all in this world, by a greater plan Look up, lift your wings, Because you canThe Light Said (The First Song album)

~ Phyllis Wheaton

If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.

~ Michael Sims

A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you can see.

~ T.f. Hodge

I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.

~ Terry Pratchett

...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life.

~ Charlotte Brontë

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

~ Joseph Addison