Quotes About Hope

The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.

We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal opposition to poverty, racism and militarism.

We have King as our tomorrow.

I see an America in which Martin Luther King's dream is our national dream.

The dream is one of equality and opportunity... men will dare to live together as brothers... Whenever it is fulfilled, we will emerge from the bleak and desolate midnight of man's inhumanity to man into the bright and glowing daybreak of freedom and justice for all of God's children.

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

I'm a butterfly that's hurt its wings against a hard world to-night.

How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed...

As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point your way.

In smoldering ashes, do you see dead fire? — or the phoenix's glittering dreams?

Can we uninstall 2020 and re-install it? This version has a virus.

In the garden I tend to drop my thoughts here and there. To the flowers I whisper the secrets I keep and the hopes I breathe. I know they are there to eavesdrop for the angels.

If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.

Sometimes, it is said we are dreamers. Well, the world needs dreamers. Sometimes out of these dreams come visions that materialize into great things.

Put on your dream hat and dance all the way to success!

Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of themselves to keep part of you alive.

If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will not call in vain. God grant that no such time may ever come to you to break the sunshine of your life; but if it should ever come, promise me that you will let me know.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on!

When you get to your wits' end, you will find that God lives there.

You must be at the end of your rope. I felt a tug.

Please be patient. God has not finished with me yet.

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.