William Rounseville Alger Quotes

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and I've always looked at life that way; I've always tried to put on a smile and a brave front, not just for my kids but in my own life and all the difficulties that I've gone through.

Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Having faith and trust that one day things will be greater, it sometimes is the one thing you need to stay positive in a negative situation.

Hope is a moral choice.

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.

What I would say to anybody facing any life challenge or disease is that that is courage - to choose life, to keep looking at what's good.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Hope is a very thin diet.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

To me, it's always been a challenge to look for the light: to look for those spaces in your heart where there is hope and faith and try to embrace that rather than crush it. I've spent so many years trying to crush those feelings of hope, and I certainly succeeded for quite a while.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.

I have never been worried because when you have hope and peace, you can handle anything.

When you have hope, and you have peace, you can handle anything.

There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.

Have a little faith. Don't give up.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life - I don't mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.