Dave Matthews Quotes

If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice.

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.'

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt.

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

Never stop believing that fighting for what is right is worth it.

I always tell people, 'It'll get greater later' meaning that sometimes we have to pass through whatever it is. We know that we can get through it because others have.

On one hand, I am very pessimistic, but on the other hand, if I didn't believe that speaking up would do something, I wouldn't have spoken.

There's so much life to live, and if you just keep on breathing and keep on walking, you will get through everything.

You've got keep your head up, keep fighting, and do the best you can.

I'm painfully a realist but ruthlessly an optimist. I think maybe it's because of my faith - I've always got the hope that there is something out there to make it all worthwhile.

What's important is that people never give up that fight to be happy, because when you do that, that's when things really start to go wrong.

The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.

But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the way that there's a difference between The Blues and Lawrence Welk. The Blues and Jazz have to do with hope while the other is sugarcoated music which has to do with sentimental optimism.

Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.

I hope that people take away hope, maybe not in an obvious sense, but in the form of hearing somebody who's genuinely fighting to stay above water. And in that fight, there's hope. In that fight, maybe there's positivity.

Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.

I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.