Hope quotes, with sources

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

Oftentimes hope succeeds to hopelessness, Many times does sunlight succeed to darkness.

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Even bad fortune is fickle.

He who despairs is in the wrong.

But lo! with hardship goeth ease.

To recover thy life is in thy power.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

You are also as strong as your strongest link.

The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart.

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we won’t see it.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

No longing remains unfulfilled.

Hope springs up in every joyless heart.

One may leap to heaven from the very slums.

Let the weary come and lay his burdens here!

Earth hath no sorrows that earth cannot heal.

If we’re alive we shall find something to eat.

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.

That which you seek—to live well—is found everywhere.

Thy Lord hath not forsaken thee nor doth He hate thee.

Thou art not far from us, even when we be far from Thee.

In a pleasant spring morning all men’s sins are forgiven.

Whosoever putteth his trust in Allah, He will suffice him.

Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

I shall die again and again to know that life is inexhaustible.

So stay where you are, and all things shall come to you in time.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

And verily the latter portion will be better for thee than the former.

An empty book is like an infant’s soul, in which anything may be written.

For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress.

Whosoever keepeth his duty to Allah, Allah will appoint a way out for him.

A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Discouragement is an act of unbelief.

This old, old day of our earth is born again and again every morning.

Life as a whole never takes death seriously.

Everyone has to build anew his sky of hope and peace.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

After winter cometh summer, after night returneth day, after the tempest a great calm.