Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come —it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.

In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.

Hope is not a matter of age.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry.

It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

I learned that one can always start again.

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

The past is lying in flames. The future will rise from the flames within our hearts.

Always have something to look forward to.

We in America believe in starting over - and over and over.

Being that beacon of hope; not just people in Ghana, but any kind of people that have gone through the struggle, I take a lot of light of being that beacon of hope and inspiration for anybody that wants to achieve anything.