Thucydides Quotes

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

Once more we are in a period of uncertainty, of danger, in which not only our own safety but that of all mankind is threatened. Once more we need the qualities that inspired the development of the democratic way of life. We need imagination and integrity, courage and a high heart. We need to fan the spark of conviction, which may again inspire the world as we did with our new idea of the dignity and worth of free men. But first we must learn to cast out fear. People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.

The world isn't always great.

When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

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

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is only natural, entirely human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing; it generates not only anxiety but also paralysis.

People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.

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.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

Hope is a very thin diet.

Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.

Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

I didn't think I was going to die. I knew some did. I knew there were some rumors.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.