Jesse Jackson Quotes

Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well

You gotta have faith. You gotta keep your head up.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.

I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.

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

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

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.

People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

When I didn't get a job, I thought, 'Don't worry, there'll be another one.' I still live by that now. Nothing really fazes me any more.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

She's true to herself and she's determined. She has things going against her, but she forges ahead despite all of that. I think that's encouraging. She's got some problems, but she has hope and tries to plow through things. I think that's a good role model.

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

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

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

I learned that I'm really good with perseverance. I'm stronger than I thought I was inside. I also learned that I don't give up easily and that I trust and believe that things are going to be OK.

All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

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

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.

Having a sense of humor is a part of being courageous. It's a source of strength.

We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

Don't let anyone rob you of hope.