Quotes About Hope

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you to go on in spite of all. And so today I still have a dream.

We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter.

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.

The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?

In common with the rest of the world she was eager to grasp at any straw which might rehabilitate her dreams.

Cary and Lilac both shared some sort of optimistic new-age philosophy, the general gist of which was that things usually turned out all right if you just expected them to. Their problems therefore settled, they carried on placing daisies in each other's hair.

Alice Miller conveyed to her readers new hope to overcome the deadly cycle of war, attachment disturbance and domestic violence. In public she was the protagonist in the fight for self-realization and the protection of children; at home she was rather the protagonist of personel tragedy, repeating the cycle of attachment disorder and violence with her eyes open. The True "Drama of the Gifted Child

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

As you are thinking about the past, the past you are thinking about the future.

We have seen time gradually dispel every unfavorable foreboding and our Constitution surmount every adverse circumstance dreaded at the outset as beyond control.