Valerie Simpson Quotes

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

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

She's true to herself and she's determined. She has things going against her, but she forges ahead despite all of that. I think that's encouraging. She's got some problems, but she has hope and tries to plow through things. I think that's a good role model.

What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

It's easy to give up, and that's the one thing we cannot do. That's what gives me a reason for working: to leave people with a little more courage, with a little hope that has been nourished. Even if, of course, it's going to disappear, whatever touches one isn't lost forever.

She told me, 'I didn't raise no quitter.' That coming from your mom, that's powerful words. That's all I needed to hear. That just drove me. I just took it in and ran with it.

It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it.

Never give up hope. Know that you are loved.

In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.

Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

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

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

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.

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

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

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

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

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.

Keep hope alive!