Quotes about Hope

The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard. About rejecting panicked division for purposeful unity. About seeing a mountaintop from the deepest valley. That is why we remember that some of the most famous words ever spoken by an American came from a president who took office in a time of turmoil: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

The title of Reverend Wright's sermon that morning was "The Audacity of Hope.

Whatever you do won't be enough, I heard their voices say. Try anyway.

We are a people of improbable hope.

You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want. It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!

Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.

O, fly and never tire, Fly and never tire, Fly and never tire, There's a great camp-meeting in the Promised Land. —FROM AN AFRICAN AMERICAN SPIRITUAL

Let us keep that promise — that American promise — and in the words of Scripture -- hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.

As she spoke, her voice never wavered; it was the voice of someone who has forced a larger meaning out of tragedy. Or

More than anyone, this book is for those young people—an invitation to once again remake the world, and to bring about, through hard work, determination, and a big dose of imagination, an America that finally aligns with all that is best in us.

Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.