Quotes About Hope

No era la falta de oportunidades lo que limitaba a mi pueblo, sino la falta de oportunidades.

after years of imprisonment, physical and emotional abuse, and separation from his family, Mandela said, "I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away." So Mandela's story is really the story of those two things he never gave away: his brilliant mind, and his great heart.

A dreamer is a winner who never gives up

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death

I waited with some anxiety, and suddenly, filling out the glass on the other side of the window was Winnie's lovely face. Winnie always dressed up for prison visits, and tried to wear something new and elegant. It was tremendously frustrating not to be able to touch me wife, to speak tenderly to her, to have a private moment together.

The struggle is my life.

It always seems impossible until it's done

Optimist zijn betekent dat je je gezicht altijd naar de zon toekeert en dat je altijd vooruitloopt.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

Truth will rise like the sun from the morning clouds!

As I finally walked through those gates to enter a car on the other side, I felt - even at the age of seventy-one - that my life was beginning anew. My ten thousand days of imprisonment were over.

Although it was not published while I was in prison, it forms the spine of this memoir.

It always seems impossible until it is done.

A pesar de todo, yo no tenía la menor duda de que volvería a ser un hombre libre algún día.

Don't pray for a different ending,' Grandpa said. 'Pray for the strength to bear what we were given.

Musical Chairs. Except I thought, when God's providing the music, everyone gets a chair.

Brothers and sisters, praise itself is an act of faith. Why? When we're able to praise God before we see the answers to our prayers, we're saying, Lord, I trust You to work this out, according to Your purpose. I'm going to thank You now for what You're going to do.

But God showed us that even in the midst of a crisis, we can look for His gifts of joy and peace.

Deliberately, she took a long drink. It wasn't as good as she remembered, but then little was. She caught herself in that thought and was ashamed. Cynicism was okay, bitterness a pain in the neck. The hairline difference between the two was hope and humor. The cynic had both, the embittered, nothing.

Life is a meadow, you just have to find a way to pick the flowers.

I know you've taken risks to do these things. Do Please be careful." "Don't worry about me," he said. "You've got enough troubles on your own plate, my word. But we'll come out all right, so long as we just keep alive, that's all we got to do. Just keep alive another two years, till the war's over.

Then the patience borne of seventy years of disappointments came to his aid;