Quotes on Hope

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .

We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent;_x000D_ _x000D_ We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

To hope till hope creates_x000D_ _x000D_ From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

What reinforcement we may gain from hope;_x000D_ _x000D_ If not, what resolution from despair.

So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud,_x000D_ _x000D_ Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed_x000D_ _x000D_ Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head.

Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed,_x000D_ _x000D_ Less pleasing when possest;_x000D_ _x000D_ The tear forgot as soon as shed,_x000D_ _x000D_ The sunshine of the breast.

Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that_x000D_ _x000D_ And manage it against despairing thoughts.

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's thoughts turn towards Hope.

Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.