Ten Quotes to Make You Hopeful Today

1. "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." Robert F. Kennedy

2.“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does”. Margaret Mead

3."Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies." Shawshank Redemption

4."These are the times that try men's souls." Thomas Paine

5. "Irish lads whose journey was blocked by a brick wall, seemingly too high to scale. Throwing their caps over the wall, the lads had no choice but to follow. How many times in the great history of our country have we come to a wall seemingly too high to scale only to throw our caps to the other side?" The West Wing

6. "A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality." Winston Churchill

7."Every time we think we have measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we’re reminded that that capacity may well be limitless." The West Wing

8."All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else." Winston Churchill

9."Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." DH "With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope." MLK

10."For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." 1 Corinthians 13