Jane Addams Quotes

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?

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

In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

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.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

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.

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

A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

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

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.

When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times.

When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.

I've always believed in survival.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.