Hope Quotes

I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!
– Susan Smith
I like what I see now in China, but I think the Japanese are a step ahead into craziness and weirdness. I go to galleries there that are the size of a New York elevator, and every time I'm surprised by the amazing things I find. I really hope I'll be able to promote some of these artists, to show their work in the West.
– Jean Pigozzi
I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
– Lalu Prasad Yadav
I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.
– Ryan Gosling
I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.
– Jeff Bridges
I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy.
– Scott Stapp
I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.
– Kenny Rogers
I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.
– Stana Katic
I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.
– David Blaine
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
– Thomas Jefferson
I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.
– George Foreman
I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.
– Juliet Stevenson
I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.
– Kurt Huber
I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.
– Jenna Bush
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.
– Debra Winger
I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.
– Louis Finkelstein
I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
– Harvey Weinstein
I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.
– Kesha
I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
– Yoshihiko Noda
I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.
– Brooke Shields
I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.
– John Rowland
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.
– Michael Jordan
I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career.
– Thomas Keller
I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.
– Dan Lipinski
I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!
– Angela Cartwright
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
– Queen Elizabeth II
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
– Andrew Wiles
I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.
– Chief Joseph
I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
– Octavia Spencer
I hope that in future Congresses there will reemerge a recognition that climate change is a reality, that our policies to meet our energy needs must also deal responsibly with environmental issues, including the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
– Jeff Bingaman
I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.
– Emmy Rossum
I hope that I'll be hot for a long time so I can make a lot of money, I can retire early, and just travel. Hopefully that will happen.
– Kristin Cavallari
I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.
– George McGovern
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
– Jack Kerouac
I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.
– Joshua Lederberg
I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.
– Susana Martinez
I hope I'm always learning something.
– Kate Winslet
I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special.
– Jenny Agutter
I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
– Orson Scott Card
I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.
– Mark Consuelos
I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.
– Sylvia Earle
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
– Gillian Anderson
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
– Nikos Kazantzakis
I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.
– Cindy Margolis
I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.
– Alex Campbell
I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
– Tadao Ando
I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.
– Andy Rooney
I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'
– Carson Daly
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.
– Marilyn Hacker
I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
– Lena Dunham
I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over.
– Laurel Clark
I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.
– Jennifer Weiner
I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.
– Ben Stiller
I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.
– Craig Ferguson
I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.
– Daryl Hall
I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.
– Paul Kane
I am very excited to accept the role of Honorary Patron with Hope Air because of the national scope of the organization and the very real impact they have on Canadians who need to travel to healthcare.
– Rick Mercer
I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.
– Miley Cyrus
I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.
– Jayson Blair
Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
– Algernon Charles Swinburne
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
– Jonas Salk
Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.
– Emanuel Cleaver
Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
– Tom Shadyac
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
– William Samuel Johnson
Hope is a very thin diet.
– Thomas Shadwell
Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.
– Paul Ryan
Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.
– Marco Rubio
Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.
– Diane Kruger
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
– B. H. Liddell Hart
Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
– Rachel Bilson
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
– Richard Cecil
God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.
– Billy Graham
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
– John Murray
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
– Algernon Charles Swinburne
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.
– William Ames
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
– Lewis B. Smedes
For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.
– LeBron James
For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
– T. S. Eliot
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
– Ferdinand Mount
First and foremost I am a commercial writer, and I hope to entertain people. But having said that, I'm in love with the relationship between humans and dogs, and the more I learned about what our military working dogs are doing, I wanted to at least share with people what an important role these animals have in all our lives.
– Robert Crais
Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.
– Mike Huckabee
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
– Baruch Spinoza
Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musicianship will want to hear and own most of our albums. We will set out to attain the same direct relationship with our customers that we have with our artists.
– Steve Vai
Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.
– Duane Chapman
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
– Corazon Aquino
Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.
– Paul Ryan
Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
– Karl Rahner
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
– John Ciardi
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
– Mason Cooley
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
– Dr. Isaac Barrow
Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.
– Lev Yilmaz
Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.
– Daniel Greenberg
Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
– Ang Lee
Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.
– Camille Claudel
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
– James Russell Lowell
Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.
– Robert Urich
Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.
– Rudy Giuliani
By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.
– Ayelet Waldman