Kofi Annan Quotes

Ever up and onward.

Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal.

But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.

There's so many inspiring people out there.

We tried to convince people that we didn’t have to be last in everything.

One has to have hope. Without hope you can't get anywhere.

People need hope and inspiration desperately. But hope and inspiration are only sustained by work.

I don't know if I will ever be satisfied but I will keep going until hopefully I am.

I am going to continue to get better and do great things.

Remember why you started, remember where you're headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going.

I never lost my dreams in my 20s, and I know that sounds corny, but it's incredibly important to never let go of what you really want in your life.

If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to.

I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.

I'm always moving forward.

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.

Always dream. Never give up!

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.