Quotes About Hope

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

As I started to consider a career in music, I hoped for success, truthfully. I didn't imagine anything that would amass the level of the first record, but I hoped that I would be able to sustain a career.

You always put some goal in your mind and you try to reach it. If you don't reach it, that's fine because you at least had something to look forward to.

I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life.

I'm a little bit of an eternal optimist. People always say to me, 'If you go do this and it fails, what are you going to do?' I don't care. I'm going to give it my best shot. That's what I'm going to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And I'll try again.

When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.

If you try to be better every day, more miracles happen in your life.

This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

I try to stay positive and keep my head up right, but I really do have a lot of anxiety.

My optimism has helped me through some hard times. If you try to send out good things, good things come back to you.

I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.

We didn't have any solution to the world's problems. I mean, we were trying to grow up in a socialist way to some future where the world might be less of a miserable place than it is.

I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.

If my journey encourages and inspires people to never give up trying to do what they really want to do, I will be truly satisfied.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

I've been fighting for my life before and sleeping in cars and trying to find a place to lay my head. I've had situations where I've had nowhere to go. This is the easy part. I overcame life.

We spent three years of active trying before we went to IVF. First I went on Clomid. Then I had some dye tests and found I had a collapsed tube, so I had laparoscopic surgery; the tube wasn't blocked, just spasming.

I had tuberculosis in my mid-20s. I didn't have much work, was living in a damp London basement in a sleeping bag, and ate only every other day. I looked rough and felt very run down.

It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis, fevers, all that - and it somehow turned into this charmed life. I don't know exactly how.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.

I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and they're circling the drain, and there's no hope. It doesn't feel good in any way to sing.