Danny Glover Quotes

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

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.

When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

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

My big inspiration for hope is the courage that I read about from people from all over the world, or that I see on a daily basis from the kids I get to work with.

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.

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.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.

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.

What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don't give up the ship, we have only begun to fight, it's always darkest before the dawn.

Rise and take your stance once again

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

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

It's still in my heart. I can do it.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

Boston and America is really resilient.