Despair gives courage to a coward.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it - always.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

Maidens like moths are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

If your determination is fixed I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.

More than any other time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Despair often breeds disease.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.