Hope Quotes

Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times.
– Joe Lando
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
– Abraham Lincoln
All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
– Magic Johnson
All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
– Aaliyah Haughton
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
– Susanna Moodie
Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.
– Bono
Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.
– Hugh Jackman
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
– Samuel Richardson
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.
– Charles M. Schulz
A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.
– Stanislav Grof
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.
– Christopher Hitchens
A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.
– Elizabeth Edwards
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
– John Ciardi
'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
– Cat Stevens
'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.
– Greg Kinnear
'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.
– Channing Tatum
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
– Joseph Addison
I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
– Ben Affleck
Marriage is the death of hope.
– Woody Allen
When you're doing what you love to do, the money comes naturally. Maybe not at first, but eventually... if you stick with it. Do you think Bob Hope started out with a goal, I want to become a millionaire by making people laugh, then I'll retire to do what I want? I doubt it. He just did what he did best. And the money came.
– Robert G. Allen
If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
– William Allingham
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
– Stephen Ambrose
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
– Maya Angelou
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
– Maya Angelou
Well, Marlon had graduated from my school a couple of years earlier. But we were together at the Actor's Studio. Everybody was there, Jimmy Dean... And back then I saw Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer, James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope... She's an old lady now-Judith Anderson! I saw her play Medea. It was so exciting; there was so much theater to see.
– Beatrice Arthur
We invite all people to join us in working for a future of opportunity and hope.
– Abdallah II
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
– Abdallah II
Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.
– King Abdullah II
I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help.
– Mohamed Al-Fayed
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
– Gaston Bachelard
We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
In searching for truth, I would hope that liberals and conservatives could work together. There are certainly areas where presuppositions will affect what questions might be asked and approaches that will be employed, and these are areas where different groups will do their own research and thinking.
– David Baker
I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.
– Howard Baker
I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused.
– Scott Bakula
My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.
– Roseanne Barr
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
– Bernard Baruch
I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.
– Don Baylor
Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas, but when any of these words, especially hope, is confused with action, the results are much more devastating.
– Bo Bennett
We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.
– Silvio Berlusconi
When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!
– Georges Bernanos
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
– Ambrose Bierce
Thank you to Martin Scorsese - I hope my son will marry your daughter.
– Cate Blanchett
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me.
– Erma Bombeck
A leader is a dealer in hope.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
– Edward de Bono
I hope every woman in this country, whether they agree with Roe or they disagree with Roe, whether they themselves would make one decision or another, will come together and say: Pro-choice means that the Government respects the individual, and isn't that really what our country is all about?
– Barbara Boxer
As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.
– Allen Boyd
He came to see me, but nary a sign of a dog or a chest of drawers. He did not even ask me what I wanted for my birthday. So I bought some jewelry for myself. A necklace, earrings, and a matching ring, all for 50 marks. All very pretty, and I hope he likes it. If he doesn't, then he should choose something for me himself.
– Eva Braun
In the end we went to the railroad station, as he suddenly decided he would have to go. We were just in time to see the last lights of the train disappearing. Once again Hoffmann left the house too late, and so I couldn't even say good-by to him. Perhaps I am taking too dark a view, I hope I am, but he is not coming again for another two weeks.
– Eva Braun
What is important is not to give up hope. I should have learned to be patient by now.
– Eva Braun
I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East.
– Paul Bremer
I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.
– Robert Bridges
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
– Rita Mae Brown
My sincere hope is that THE DA VINCI CODE, in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door through which curious souls might pass to begin their own exploration.
– Dan Brown
Farmers markets are green shoots coming out of the gun. They represent hope and they need to be cultivated. But we have a juggernaut coming at us.
– Jerry Brown
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
– Pearl S. Buck
You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it creative observation. Creative viewing.
– William S. Burroughs
Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.
– George W. Bush
I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
– George W. Bush
I have more love in me than not, I have more hope in me than not, and I have more faith than I used to. I just want to get out of the way of what I've been given, so I can do it right.
– Brett Butler
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
– Lord Byron
His hope is treacherous only whose love dies with beauty, which is varying every hour, bit, in chaste hearts uninfluenced by the power of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower, that breathes on earth the air of paradise.
– Michelangelo
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
– Michelangelo
It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.
– Richard H. Baker
I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.
– Adam Baldwin
When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.
– Adrienne Barbeau
The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come.
– Lewis J. Bates
As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
– Bob Beauprez
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves. Persons who are secure with a transcendental system of values and a deep sense of moral duties are possessors of values which no man and no catastrophe can take from them.
– Francis J. Braceland
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
– Charles Bradlaugh
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
– Marian Zimmer Bradley
There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
– Harry Bridges
As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.
– Sergey Brin
By carefully avoiding the first step towards intemperance... and by cherishing the wish to deserve and the hope of receiving the approbation of your country, you can alone render yourself able to occupy with honor the high standing in the Navy to which many of you are destined.
– Franklin Buchanan
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
– James Burgh
We hope to make clear the ways in which dialectical and metaphysical issues necessarily figure in the subject of motivation. Our speculations, as we interpret them, should show that the subject of motivation is a philosophic one, not ultimately to be solved in terms of empirical science.
– Kenneth Burke
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done - then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
– Francis Hodgson Burnett
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
– Daniel Burnham
Death, only, renders hope futile.
– Edgar Rice Burroghs
If the American family has seemed in danger of disintegration, I believe and hope it will survive, and I think America will return to old values.
– James Cagney
One thing that troubles me is that they say that my portrayals of gangsters and hoodlums led to a tolerance of the criminal element by society. Well, I certainly hope they didn't, because I'm firmly opposed to crime.
– James Cagney
I'm pissed that TBS changed their network and did not renew us. I hope they die a miserable burning death with their new program format because I'm pissed. Now again, I don't want TBS to burn to the ground literally. I just want their ratings to go down in smoldering flames. I'm just pissed that my show got jacked.
– Dean Cain
Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.
– Kim Campbell
For me, rationalizing skills training is neither a political fetish nor a form of currency used between governments. Above all, it is the logical solution to a very real human problem. By making better use of the resources we devote to training, we will instill hope in Canadian men and women who ask nothing more than to live a life of dignity.
– Kim Campbell
When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.
– Harry Caray
I enjoy what I am doing and hope to continue. As long as it is fun and interesting, I will keep doing it.
– Tucker Carlson
You don't watch Crossfire to find out what happened but to makes sense of what happened. You hope that you take the biggest story of the day and help people understand what it means.
– Tucker Carlson
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
– Thomas Carlyle
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
– Thomas Carlyle
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
– Thomas Carlyle
I have been sent more ridiculous press notices. People are frequently comparing my work with Van Gogh... I do hope I do not get bloated and self-satisfied. When proud feelings come I step up over them to the realm of work, to the thing I want, the liveness of the thing itself.
– Emily Carr
I hope I will have achieved something lasting.
– Graham Chapman
What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.
– Chubby Checker
What you see is kinda what you get with me. I'm a very real person, or I hope to be, anyway. I don't have nothing to hide.
– Kenny Chesney
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
– G. K. Chesterton
I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to use his claws.
– Sir Winston Churchill
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero