Quotes about Hope
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
— Frederick Douglass
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
— Walt Disney
Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.
— Parker Palmer
It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking, and a contraception mentality.
— Pope Benedict XVI
I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.
— Rose Kennedy
I wanted my new release 'Get Back Up' to benefit Haiti in their tragedy and I am blessed to use my music to help as your purchase becomes our gift.
— TobyMac
As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.
— Jordan Peterson
I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.
— John Ortberg
Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.
— Marianne Williamson
I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.
— Sojourner Truth
Let others say what they will of the efficacy of prayer, I believe in it, and I shall pray. Thank God! Yes, I shall always pray,
— Sojourner Truth