Richard Donner Quotes

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

When my doctors said I would never walk, I didn't believe them. I knew I wasn't meant to spend my life in a chair.

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

It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I'm going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I'm able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; in enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not abandon it to his enemy.

When times are down, keep believing, keep working hard, and things will pick up.

I was on the wheelchair for six months and lost all hope of returning to the field. I thought my career was over, but my brother kept on encouraging me. 'All that you need to do is to be resolute to return to the field,' he said. These words turned out to be magical.

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.

My wife has always been positive. In the hospital my brother-in-law was trying to prepare her for the worst, but she said, 'Hold on, I don't want to hear that. He'll be all right. I'm going to ring BMW now and order a car with manual controls because the first thing he'll want to do when he leaves hospital is drive.' She knew her husband!

My advice to you is never stop believing.

I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

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

Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?'

Without hope we are lost.

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.

Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.

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

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

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.

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.

Keep hope alive!