Quotes About Hope

Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.

I almost threw up the first time I set foot inside the University of California, San Francisco's Comprehensive Care Center and joined the stream of thin, slow-moving, low-voiced, gray-skinned people. I didn't want to be one of the pitied, the struck-down.

Billions of people around the globe had come to know Barack Obama, had heard his words, had watched his speeches, and, in some unknowable but irreducible way, had come to see the world as a place that could - in some incremental way - change.

Sometimes you just have to let go of the old and trust that something better is going to take its place, even if it's scary to face change and the unknown.

Instead of fearing the unknown - all the bad that can happen - realize that good things can surprise you as well.

To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

Britain's Got Talent' is about those moments when an unknown person takes to the stage and changes their life in the space of a few minutes.

The species will continue, whatever apocalypse we manage to unleash. It just won't be much fun to live through.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.

Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

Would you stop hoping? Hope is just postponed disappointment.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

Don't be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!

Woman, last at the cross, and earliest at the grave.

Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?

Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.

No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met with patience.

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.