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

Those of us missing the John Wick universe can take heart, because Chad Stahelski—who created that franchise—is coming back early next year with a new dystopian action film. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026

The findings should encourage people to take heart health seriously, but not to panic, experts note. — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026

This new system allows the watch to take heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV) readings with greater accuracy and frequency. — Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026

But going into Sunday, Robertson and Sehested will take heart from another light-wind forecast, the tricky conditions in which Italy and Denmark seem to excel. — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 5 Sep. 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