Hope Vs Despair Quotes

#1. Think positive. Envision your rest as you become more deprived. Envision your success as you endure more failure. Do not fuel despair with false truth. Instead, battle despair with hope.

Peter S. Fogg

#2. To all going though despair and turmoil in their lives, you must keep the faith to see the calm beyond your troubles and the hope of better days ahead!

Timothy Pina

#3. When all hope was gone, they heeded the counsels of despair. Had they continued to strive, defying their doom, some unforseen wonder might have occurred. And if it did not, still their glory would have surpassed their failure.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#4. I knew that I lived in a place where hope and a sense of possibility were as ephemeral as morning fog, but I did not see the despair at the heart of our drug use.

Jesmyn Ward

#5. We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, 'What's the good of doing anything?' Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age.

Agatha Christie

#6. A world without hope, but no despair

Henry Miller

#7. When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair. If we rise, they will rise with us every time, no matter how many times we've fallen before. I hope you will remember that the next time you fail ... Remembering that is the most important work as parents we can possibly do.

Cheryl Strayed

#8. My strength is in the Lord. In him, I breathe, live and move.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Enter faith, and a whole new factor enters the equation. Words like "impossible" seem out of place. Despair and cynicism feel like insults to God. Hope grows, and love, and therefore motivation to care, to give, to act, to try, to dream, to risk.

Brian D. McLaren

#10. Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. For true humility is, in a way, a very real despair: despair of myself, in order that I may hope entirely in You.

Thomas Merton

#12. As you walk the thin line between despair and hope . . . I wonder what your voices will sound like when you scream.

Takaya Kagami

#13. Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

John Milton

#14. What a lover's heart knows let no man's brain dispute.

Aberjhani

#15. The deepest comfort comes from the divine self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.
You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

Lisa Gardner

#17. OUT OF AN INFINITE LOVE, you, O Lord, have made me an heir of your kingdom and joint heir with Christ. O Good Jesus, to whom else shall I go? You have the words of eternal life. I hope, and I believe in you. Lord keep me from despair. Amen. O

Derek A. Olsen

#18. There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

Thomas Carlyle

#19. Connor has always been light to her. Pure light and hope in the face of sorrow and despair.

Andrea Cremer

#20. Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#21. To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

James Hillman

#22. It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

Oscar Hammerstein II

#23. The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.

John Lancaster Spalding

#24. Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.

David Mitchell

#25. Regret is the strongest anchor that latches on to the ground, and you carry it within you, it is a feeling quite unlike others for it is despair mingled with hope.

Saim .A. Cheeda

#26. How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us.

Julian Barnes

#27. Sometimes, we can't help but to shed tears!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.

Richard Asher

#29. Alan McCluskey
Despair is an ugly thing when it refuses hope.

Alan McCluskey

#30. 'Revelations' is one of the most important pieces to the African American arts. It assesses the hope and despair of a people and overcoming the struggle with our faith.

Robert Battle

#31. We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".

Francis Bacon

#32. Consult ... /what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.

John Milton