take heart

phrase

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

Take heart; things will get better soon.

… the [Oakland] 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

Stocks fell sharply early in Thursday's session, but steadily clawed their way back as investors appeared to take heart from news reports that Iran and Oman are hammering out a plan to oversee traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026

Tax has historic broad support Lawmakers, however, take heart in history and the desire of voters not to cast the city’s finances into uncertainty and chaos. — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2026

Batres takes heart from that resilience and embraces it. — Sara Sidner, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026

This is a statistic where competitors to One Battle can take heart. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 22 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1530, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for take heart

• counterpart
• apart
• depart
• flowchart
• forepart
• impart
• pushcart
• rampart
• redstart
• restart
• subpart
• sweetheart