Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

How many would die did not hope sustain them.

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

You should read something else." Why would he have done that to him?" I don't know," she said. Do you ever feel like Job?" She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes. Sometimes." But you haven't lost your faith?" No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine. Is it because you think you might get better?" No," she said,"its because its the only thing I have left.

When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

At some time, often when we least expect it, we all have to face overwhelming challenges. When the unthinkable happens, the lighthouse is hope. Once we find it, we must cling to it with absolute determination. When we have hope, we discover powers within ourselves we may have never known- the power to make sacrifices, to endure, to heal, and to love. Once we choose hope, everything is possible.

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.