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
Sports IllustratedMovements 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
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Anyone, regardless of political persuasion, should take heart that the United States’ system of checks and balances can assuage uncertainty and ensure democracy’s functionality.
—Blake D. Morant, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Rival consultants can take heart that even with all-important PGA and DGA wins, films like La La Land, Brokeback Mountain and Saving Private Ryan — to name three — did not ultimately become Best Picture Oscar winners.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025
As the world’s wealthiest men team up to impose maximum harm on the world by embracing Nazism and partnering with Putin, one of the world’s most lethal dictators, please take heart.
—Sabrina Haake, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
And Conclave, which led the BAFTA nominations with 12, can take heart in the fact of two recent Best Picture winners, Green Book and CODA, that did that feat without a Directing nomination (each won Best Picture with also Screenplay and Supporting Actor awards).
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2025
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Blake D. Morant, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Rival consultants can take heart that even with all-important PGA and DGA wins, films like La La Land, Brokeback Mountain and Saving Private Ryan — to name three — did not ultimately become Best Picture Oscar winners.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025
As the world’s wealthiest men team up to impose maximum harm on the world by embracing Nazism and partnering with Putin, one of the world’s most lethal dictators, please take heart.
—Sabrina Haake, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
And Conclave, which led the BAFTA nominations with 12, can take heart in the fact of two recent Best Picture winners, Green Book and CODA, that did that feat without a Directing nomination (each won Best Picture with also Screenplay and Supporting Actor awards).
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Take heart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/take%20heart. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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