The Truth About Social Work Quotes

“Martin Luther King Jr. once said “we must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope” and I can’t help but thinking his words are a fitting mantra for what we face in modern social work. We’re never going to catch up on our recording, we’ll never get that ‘to do’ list completed and there will always be a deadline just around the corner. Some people will never want us in their lives and sometimes, no matter how hard we work, we’ll never make the breakthrough people need. But we can’t lose hope that we’re making a difference in the world and we can’t lose hope that we are capable of so much more than we’re showing right now. Keep hoping. Keep trying. Keep social working.”
― Social Work Tutor, The Truth About Social Work: Real life stories from people on the frontline of social work