Hope Quotes

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
– Geezer Butler
I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.
– Paul Simon
I don't believe that I'm better than anybody, but I do believe that I'll try harder than most and I hope that people just join me for a little bit of a ride.
– Tom DeLonge
I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?
– Vanessa Paradis
I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
– Howard Nemerov
I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.
– Lesley Garrett
I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.
– Liam Neeson
I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.
– Jennifer Lopez
I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.
– Charlize Theron
I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that.
– Harlan Coben
I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.
– Jarvis Cocker
I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.
– Francois Hollande
I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.
– Jerry Lewis
I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
– Louis Farrakhan
I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.
– Henning Mankell
I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.
– Charles Babbage
I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.
– Jan Brewer
I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
– Madeleine Albright
House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.
– John Boehner
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
– Samuel Smiles
Hope will never be silent.
– Harvey Milk
Hope springs eternal, even in politics.
– Gwen Ifill
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
– Alexander Pope
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
– Evan Esar
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
– Herman Melville
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
– Henry Rollins
Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.
– Jenny McCarthy
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
– Samuel Richardson
Hope is the denial of reality.
– Margaret Weis
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
– Samuel Smiles
Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
– Lin Yutang
Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.
– Christina Rossetti
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
– Gloria Steinem
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
– Baltasar Gracian
Hope is a risk that must be run.
– Georges Bernanos
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
– William Shenstone
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
– Vaclav Havel
Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
– Charles Stanley
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
– Harlan Coben
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
– Albert Camus
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
– Patti Smith
Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he'd say the same about me.
– Ellen Barkin
For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.
– Ryan Gosling
For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
– Jesse Jackson
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.
– John Thorn
For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.
– James Buchan
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
– Karl Rove
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
– Martin Luther
Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.
– Paul Ryan
Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.
– Bobby Darin
Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
– Franz Schubert
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
– Seamus Heaney
Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.
– Carter Burwell
Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
– Eddie Vedder
Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.
– Loretta Lynn
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
– Maurice Sendak
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
– Eric Hoffer
Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'
– Jennifer Aniston
Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.
– David D. Burns
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
– Gertrude Stein
Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.
– Simon Mainwaring
Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.
– Marco Rubio
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
– William Shakespeare
Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan you just hope for it.
– David E. Kelley
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
– Marcus Garvey
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.
– Frank B. Kellogg
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
– George Eliot
But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
– Anne Tyler
But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.
– Dave Matthews
But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.
– Marco Rubio
But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
– Elizabeth Edwards
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
– Bernard Berenson
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
– Mahalia Jackson
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.
– M. Night Shyamalan
Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.
– Anish Kapoor
Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.
– Isabelle Huppert
Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
– Ed Bradley
At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.
– Dennis Hastert
At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.
– Janis Ian
At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.
– King Abdullah II
At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
– Stanislav Grof
As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.
– Dan Lipinski
As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.
– Christina Ricci
As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.
– Annette Funicello
As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.
– Thomas Sowell
As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, 'This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever.'
– Tom Cruise
As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.
– Lucy Powell
As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.
– LL Cool J
Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.
– Simon Mainwaring
And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.
– Phil Ochs
And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.
– George Carey
And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
– Patti Davis
Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
– Mick Jagger
Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.
– Stephen Hawking