Lech Walesa Quotes

We all get discouraged.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

I'm beyond the point of thinking I'm powerful enough to solve my own problems.

"Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor; but what's the good of my having a anchor, if I can't find no bottom to let it go in?"

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

Without hope we are lost.

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

They can conquer who believe they can.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

The how-to-do-it always comes to the person who believes he can do it.

I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it.

I never felt cynical, and I never felt that I couldn't do what I wanted to do.

There's a lot of times when I feel nihilistic, and lose hope, like I'm just lost in the world. But there's a lot of times when I can kinda be in control of destiny.

People think I'm angry and they're right. There's a lot to be angry about. But I'm also empathetic and ambitious and hopeful and happy at times.

I've always been the type of person that thinks, 'If someone else can do it, so can I.'

We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.

Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.

Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.

The greatest quality that a person can possess is the quality of self-belief. If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you won't, you most certainly won't.

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

With attitude, you can determine your own performance.