J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

One of the big takeaways from Iraq was that you have to not lose confidence in what you are doing. We were able to go to the edge of the abyss without losing hope.

I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

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

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.

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.

Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

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

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

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.

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.

Keep hope alive!

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor.

Hope will never be silent.