Karl A. Menninger Quotes

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.

Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

A man full of hope will be full of action.

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try.

You know me, I love lost causes.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction?

Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the beginning of existence. Hope is the ontogenetic basis of faith, and is nourished by the adult faith which pervades patterns of care.

Welcome to those who believe in the power of dreams and who would like to join me in my exploration of life.

In this life, anything can happen - and what can help bring it to pass is Hope

Hope is really a thought.

Hope is an essential constituent of human life.

My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.

I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

There something to be said for having even unrealistic dreams. Even if the dreams don't come true - that, to me, is what's beautiful about Los Angeles. It's full of these people who have moved there to chase these dreams.

I'd rather look to the future than to the past.

I'm looking forward, not afraid of anything.