Hope, Courage & Faith

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
Christopher Reeve

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Author Unknown

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marion Zimmer Bradley

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
Author Unknown

Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all.
Emily Dickinson

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Albert Einstein

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.
Author Unknown

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers

What can appear to be your worst moments in life are sometimes just an invitation to yourself and to your next magical journey – a journey that we would never have had the courage to take unless forced to do so.
Mark Hoog

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
Isaac Asimov

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Hope is grief’s best music.
Author Unknown

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucious

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment.
William Penn

While there’s life there’s hope.
Cicero

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
Oscar Wilde

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
Matthew Prior

He who has never hoped can never despair.
George Bernard Shaw

Updated Nov. 2, 2008

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

I start to think there really is no cure for depression that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

We could never learn to be brave and patient , if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

Courage is the strength to stand up.. when it is easier to sit down
Author Unknown

And the day came when the risk it took to remain inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Christopher Robin to Pooh

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandria

Trust your hopes, not your fears.
David Mahoney

He who has health has hope. And he who has hope has everything.
Arabian Proverb

Hope ever tells us tomorrow will be better.
Tibullus

Hope to the end.
1 Peter 1:13

We cannot discover new oceans until we have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Muriel Chen

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer

The light of humanity never shines brighter than those moments in which someone reaches into the darkness of another’s suffering to offer comfort.
David L. Weatherford

Updated June 22, 2008

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon

Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
Emory Austin

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Colton

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
Daisaku Ikeda

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin

I can make it through the rain I can stand up once again on my own and I know that I’m strong enough to mend. And everytime I feel afraid I hold tighter to my faith and I live one more day and I make it through the rain
Mariah Carey

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Gandhi

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