Desmond Dekker Quotes

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

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

… failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.

When your back is against the wall, and you feel like you're losing faith and hope because so many things are coming at you at once, hold on.

Just don't give up. I mean, don't stop believin'.

At some points, hope was the only thing I had. When I began my journey toward walking again, I clung to hope like a life raft.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

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

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

Patience is the art of hoping.

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

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.

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 a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

I never put down a bad script and I never walk out of a bad movie because I'm always hopeful things will change.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt.