Martin Luther King Jr. 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.

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

Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

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

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

It is true that one cannot always win, but one must keep working and have faith that in the future, the situation will improve.

I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away, along with my future, my dreams, and my beliefs. Buru Island is no happy land somewhere; it's but a way station on my journey in life—though to believe even that much will require no small measure of hope.

In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!

To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.

My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times.

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

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

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.