Philip K. Dick Quotes

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

You can turn your life around. You can through hell and back. It is possible. Never underestimate yourself. I believe in you.

Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do.

Pessimism never won any battle.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it.

Anybody who says they're bitter is sick in their soul. They've given up.

Being that beacon of hope; not just people in Ghana, but any kind of people that have gone through the struggle, I take a lot of light of being that beacon of hope and inspiration for anybody that wants to achieve anything.

What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don't give up the ship, we have only begun to fight, it's always darkest before the dawn.

We need to empower ourselves and believe in ourselves, and not allow the world to take that away from us. No matter how dark we may think our world is, it's been much darker in the past, and we will make it through this.

Never give up and always believe in yourself.

I don't believe in the no-win scenario

Trust Yourself and Believe, Whatever Happens Don't Give Up.

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

Be strong minded, and always believe that the impossible is possible.