“I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.”
Hopeful feeling
Hopeful Quotes — page 167 of 783
“Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.”
“All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.”
“Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.”
“And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.”
“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
“My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.”
“There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.”
“Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!”
“Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.”
“For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know”
“If we surround ourselves with people who are successful, who are forward-moving, who are positive, who are focused on producing results, who support us, it will challenge us to be more and do more and share more. If you can surround yourself with people who will never let you settle for less than you can be, you have the greatest gift that anyone can hope for.”
“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”
“It's time to start all over/make a new beginning.”
“Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are! This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?”
“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.”
“Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.”
“Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.”
“Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust is now in him- and in myself. But above all in him, for when I go under he always fishes me out, seizing and shaking me like a life-saving dog whose teeth tear my skin a little every time. So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.”
“With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.”