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Quotes About Hope

Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.
~ John Bonifaz
No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.
~ Pope Paul VI
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!
~ Cotton Mather
We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.
~ Robert E. Lee
Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble. What we need is love To guide and protect us on. If you hope good down from above, Help the weak if you are strong now.
~ Bob Marley
World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--
~ Nelly Sachs
All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll be no more wars and our children will play, one day.
~ Matisyahu
If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future.
~ Henry Watkins Allen
If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.
~ Kathe Kollwitz
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
~ William Hazlitt
The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment
~ Robert Capa
It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.
~ Ernest Bevin
The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.
~ Howard Zinn
To die, so young to die. No, no, not I, I love the warm sunny skies, light, song, shining eyes, I want no war, no battle cry, No, no, not I.
~ Hannah Szenes
There will be no veterans of World War III.
~ Walter Mondale
The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
~ Tony Blair
You hold in your hands the future of the world.
~ Raymond Poincare
We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime.
~ John R. Rice
I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
~ Geezer Butler
You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.
~ Bashar al-Assad