Quotes About Hope

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

I think for all of us who call East St. Louis part of our heritage, we want to make a better day for the city.

This city of East St. Louis needs a tomorrow.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

I just hope that the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people prevails. If it does we must move quickly to help restore stability and prosperity.

Followers need to see how things will get better and what that future might look like. Leaders need to build that foundation of stability, and hope sits on top of that.

I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.

We stand with the government and people of Afghanistan in their quest for peace, stability and prosperity.

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.

For a long time, perhaps too long, we believed that the world around us would become more and more peaceful, and the order more stable.

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination. A man may feel as old as his years yet as young as his dreams.

It will be hard for us and it will be an achievement just to get out of the group stages and through to the quarterfinals, but I am personally dreaming of reaching the final!

Cancer is something if you spot in the first few stages, it can be cured.

I don't understand why some people get access to the universe and other people feel like they're meant to just be stagnant and fail.

Everyone wants change. Donald is the only one that can deliver it. We should not be satisfied with stagnation.

I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.

It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.'

We must stop looking to the past and focus on ensuring everyone has a stake in the future.

Being a mum means you have a very real stake in the future of our country.

High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble.

It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

We didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.