take heart

idiomatic phrase

: to gain courage or confidence : to begin to feel better and more hopeful

Take heart; things will get better soon.

While teams like the Indians and the Red Sox face grueling Septembers, the A's … can take heart in having survived their most difficult stretch.

—Sports Illustrated

Movements against any form of repression can take heart from a historical method that demonstrates that much of what has been produced by history can also be dismantled.

—Nicholas B. Dirks

Examples of take heart in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Harris should take heart that the last four vice presidents who ran for president as incumbents and lost had numerous successes after their losses, including landing in the White House on a second try. —Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025

But take heart, ink aficionados: Scientists have found that fluorescent laser imaging can return even 1200-year-old tattoos—in this case, etched into the mummified skin of ancient Peruvian people (seen above)—to their original, highly intricate glory. —Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 13 Jan. 2025

But Gordon Haberman, whose daughter, Andrea, was killed at the World Trade Center while on a business trip, took heart. —Ellen Knickmeyer and Jennifer Peltz, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025

While far-right supporters are embracing Mr. Musk’s interventions, Europe’s mainstream leaders will take heart from signs that most Europeans seem firmly opposed to them. —Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1530, in the meaning defined above