Studs Terkel Quotes

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.

Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

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.

We want to inspire people to work together, giving them hope that we can do something even if we cannot do everything.

It's hope as a decision that makes change possible.

Don't let anyone rob you of hope.

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

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

Never give up hope! Hope ultimately succeeds.

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.

At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.

Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive.

Look not down but up!

The most powerful weapon is hope.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.

Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.

Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith.

The most important word in the English language is hope.

I've seen optimism because I grew up in communities of recovery where people put their lives back together and find tomorrows that they didn't think would be there. That fundamentally changed my life and is so much of where my hope comes from.

Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.

Hope is life's greatest treasure. If you have no hope, create some!

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.