“Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are delayed because of prejudice, outrun the people who surrender to failure, and outrun the opponent who loses sight of the goal. Because if you want to win, the will can never retire, the race can never stop, and faith can never weaken.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsWinningGoalLosesRaceDespairSightPrejudiceQuittingSurrenderOpponentsRetiringDiscomfortDelayedOutrun Author:Muhammad Ali
“Here is a fearful enemy of God and man — the liquor traffic; it makes ruthless war upon the people; it blasts and destroys their homes as with pestilence and fire; it kills savagely, cruelly, more than a hundred thousand of them every year; robbing them first and driving wives and children to rain and despair.” PeopleMenYearsFirstsChildrenWarHomeEnemyFireWifeThousandDespairHundredRainDrivingFearfulTrafficRuthlessLiquorBlastRobbingPestilence Author:Neal S. Dow
“Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times noisy) desperation, understanding nothing but the fact that there is a hole inside them and that however much food and drink they pour into it, however many motorcars and television sets they stuff it with, however many well-balanced children and loyal friends they parade around the edges of it. . . it aches!” PeopleWellsChildrenCountryFactsDesireStuffUnderstandingCarFoodTelevisionMaterialsTvsDrinkComfortQuietDespairMetaphorEdgesHolesBritainMaterialismMelancholyLoyalBalancedDesperationAnguishAcheGloomPouringParadesNoisyNot Good EnoughColumnistsFood And DrinkBroadcastersLoyal Friend Author:Bernard Levin
“People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.” PeopleSufferingWonderDespairTransformationTriumphCorporateThese Days Author:Laurie Anderson
“You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.” PeopleSelfActionJoyChoicesForceGrowthGreaterTearsDespairMercyApathySelectStagnation Author:Leo Buscaglia
“I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.” PeopleWayGivingDespairAmused Author:Joe Orton
“Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus.” PeopleWorldHandsTodayJesusGivenDespairHungerFaithfulOur WorldHopelessnessGiven UpWorld TodayBeing FaithfulProclaiming Author:Billy Graham
“Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.” PeopleInspirationPastPossibilityPromiseDespairReservesRough TimesNew Possibilities Author:Ronald A. Heifetz
“I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people are like, "Oh, it's the guy that's in a swirling vortex of despair, send it to Kinnear!" I don't really know, but it does seem to be a recurring theme.” PeopleKnowsTryingDoeDoneEnoughSeemsGuyEffortRolesTypeDespairThemeRecurringVortexRecurring Themes Author:Greg Kinnear
“You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.” PeopleKnowsLeftInspiringFeetDespairMy FriendsStandingTiredOppressionIronSunlightHumiliationAbyssChillJulyNovemberThere Comes A TimePiercingsNaggingBleaknessAlpine Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.” PeopleLevelsDespairSettlingTolerate Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. The appalling disparities of health and wealth and opportunity that condemned millions of people to the lives of despair. I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas and economics, and politics. I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences. But humanities greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.” PeopleWorldLooksMadeIdeasRealBigsHumanityOpportunityLeftWealthMillionsAwarenessDespairDiscoveryEconomicsAwfulNew IdeasExposureHarvardDisparity Author:Bill Gates
“The present moment is never intolerable. It is always what is coming in five minutes or five days that makes people despair. The Law of Life is to live in the present, and this applies to both time and place. Keep your attention to the present moment, and in the place where your body is now. Do a fair day's work, and then stop. Overwork is not productive in the long run.” PeopleLongMomentsBodyRunningLawLife IsAttentionFiveMinutesDespairFairsYour BodyProductivePresent MomentLong RunsFive MinutesLive In The PresentLaws Of LifeOverwork Author:Emmet Fox
“God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death?” PeopleKnowsWorldWantNeedsChildrenImportantCareLife IsAsksThis WorldDespairChosenGod LoveMy ChildrenLove LifeGod KnowsLife Or Death Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It’s easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong.” PeopleEvilSpeakStrongEasyReturnDespairWeakCrushDesperatePersecutedForsakenHumiliateI Am Strong Author:Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
“I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldShouldBelieveDoeWould BeAbleEvilCompassionHeardExampleDespairGoodnessLosingCapacityIncrediblesBe GoodCrueltyMy TimeOur WorldDozenJustifiedUnnoticedLosing HopeActs Of Evil Author:Desmond Tutu
“Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.” PeopleDespair Book:Essays in Religion and Morality Source: Essays in Religion and Morality
“A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture - in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenDoeArtSufferingCultureLiteratureWealthPovertyGroupsHeroPoliticianCircumstancesDrugDespairScientistTheaterSoldierNewspapersSensitiveHeroismMediocreAddictDrug AddictRenderingDiscsJockeysBeing A Hero Author:Andrea Dworkin
“Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair.” PeopleLooksPersonsPhilosophyPainTalkingDespairCloudsLiftsGuru Author:Mata Amritanandamayi