Quotes About Hope

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by setting one foot in front of the other, I will eventually make my way out of the desert.

Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.

What a lot of the world missed was just how caring New York became post-9/11.

Haven't a lot of us just missed at a lot of things and thought that we wouldn't have another chance at it? So we give up early.

One missing child is one too many.

Missing something doesn't help anything. You can only look at the future, what you can keep doing.

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

As the founder of your company, you must be in love with your brand and inspired by your brand's mission if you have any hope of getting press for your product.

My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen.

Even missionaries get discouraged at times.

Hopefully 'Mississippi Grind' will be good in the theater.

A better Mississippi and a better America is in our future - if we fight for it.

The Mississippi of 1920 was an exceptionally dangerous place for Black people. But my grandfather deeply believed in helping create opportunities to African-Americans to lift themselves up to create a better life for their families and doing everything possible to bring his people together.

I am a firm believer that you can make a mistake but that shouldn't define you. Everybody deserves a second chance.

I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.