Hope Quotes

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
– John Hall
I always hope that as a performer I'm able to come out with something that not only makes people feel inspired but even beyond that, I always hope that what happens on the stage makes people feel like they can do it.
– Herbie Hancock
I hope to do more movie scores, I hope to do more work in the orchestral setting, some more tours that are more in the line that classical musicians play.
– Herbie Hancock
I hope to still be making records, but still traveling and touring, I don't know to the extent that I am now, because it's pretty wearing on your physical energy.
– Herbie Hancock
I still put on the skates once in a while, but I do not look back. I had a great career. I hope to have a great career in boxing, too. I am not bitter at the way some people may look at me. Sure, I am trying to turn my image around and be a lady. But you can be a lady, and an athlete, too.
– Tonya Harding
Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul.
– George Harrison
I'm a terrible pessimist... I really don't think we're going to make it. But every so often, there's some little ray of hope.
– Lou Harrison
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
– B. H. Liddell Hart
You open your box and select a new fly, then lengthen the tippet before the next try, change your position to help with the cast, and hope you have made the right decision at last, now you are a doubtful fly fisherman.
– George W. Harvey
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
– Vaclav Havel
I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.
– Tom Hayden
There is no role in a war unless the parties are exhausted. These parties are not exhausted. They are still on a triumphal path. They are not on a coalition path. It's an either/or death struggle. They don't understand that the death is ongoing right now and could take several cycles for the corpse to be autopsied. I hope you use this - this should put your paper on the map. Everybody should read it.
– Tom Hayden
I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.
– Anthony Stewart Head
I believe education is the great equalizer. Our children are our hope for the future, so we have an obligation to provide them with the tools to succeed. There is no more powerful tool than knowledge.
– Dave Heineman
You just hope that somebody makes it scary or you're going to look like an idiot!
– Martin Henderson
We cannot give up hope for the future of humanity because it is our destiny to shape that future for good or ill.
– Arthur Henderson
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
– Brad Henry
I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
– Alexander Henry
On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!
– Alexander Henry
He that lives in hope danceth without musick.
– George Herbert
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even ... without any hope of doing it well.
– Oliver Herford
A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
– Arthur Hertzberg
I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that.
– Arthur Hertzberg
I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.
– Arthur Hertzberg
I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life.
– Jennifer Love Hewitt
I don't really consider myself famous, so I hope not, because if so, there are many more, famous people that they can be nervous about than me.
– Jennifer Love Hewitt
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
– Herbert Hoover
It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge.
– Sam Houston
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name.
– Sam Houston
I would hope that we would treat these funds as help for health-related problems for our citizens, not a bonanza of bucks for politicians to fund pet projects.
– Mike Huckabee
Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.
– Victor Hugo
If there's a message, it's that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what happens when they're not cool. And I hope people feel OK about not being cool.
– Helen Hunt
I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.
– Evan Hunter
My desire is to usher in an unprecedented period of cooperation and community building. People reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic - a state that is truly respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness must be our hope.
– Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.
– John Hurt
There's always that question of what do you do first thing in the morning-hair and makeup or do you go and set up the shot. You can't be at all places at all times. So you have to try and not hold yourself hostage and be methodical about the work and hope that the weather gods will smile.
– Anjelica Huston
All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this man has tried, and his family tried. This is all there is to seek in this world.
– King Hussein
Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this.
– King Hussein
My concern all along, I have warned time and again, is of Jordan becoming a battleground for forces outside its immediate area. This is where we went haywire in the 1950s and I hope this will never be repeated.
– King Hussein
This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
– Victor Davis Hanson
I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands.
– Ronnie Hawkins
Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.
– Anne Heche
As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.
– Richard M. Helms
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.
– Don Henley
Hope is the poor man's bread.
– Gary Herbert
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
– Hesiod
For me, the most memorable adventures are still the perils that we face daily in life and love, from the mundane to the meaningful. Where the comedy is often at our own expense, but where the drama, even if painful, reminds us that we are living and feeling here in the real time, with the ever-recurring possibility that this latest chapter will end with new understanding, hope and perhaps even happiness.
– Rupert Holmes
Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
– Albert Hubbard
We (expletive) deserve to get bombed. Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!
– Chrissie Hynde
Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.
– George Iles
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.
– Daniel Inouye
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!
– Washington Irving
God's unchangeableness is the very foundation of desire and hope and activity in things religious as in things natural. The uniformity of nature's operations in the one, and the constancy of God's promises in the other, give aim and certainty to events.
– Edward Irving
The atomic bomb survivors... cannot wait another 50 years. Their highest hope is to see the abolition of nuclear weapons within their own lifetime. It is a steep climb to this goal, but one from which we must never relent.
– Iccho Itoh
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
– Charles Ives
In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.
– Clive James
I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.
– Edward Jenner
I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.
– Edward Jenner
God, I hope I wear this jersey forever.
– Derek Jeter
I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then.
– Scarlett Johansson
If you were having an affair, with, say, your friend's wife, and you had to meet her... cross the street in San Francisco where you knew you wouldn't be observed. And you went to meet her one day, and she walked across the street and got his by a truck. And you say, first of all, 'oh God... I hope she's alive.' Secondly you say, 'I'm never ever going to do this again.
– Neil Jordan
As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
– Hamid Karzai
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
– Helen Keller
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
– Edward Kennedy
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
– John F. Kennedy
George Bush's vision does not live up to the America I enlisted in the Navy to defend, the America I have fought for in the Senate, and the America that I hope to lead as president.
– John F. Kerry
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
– Charles F. Kettering
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
– Willem de Kooning
War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.
– Karl Kraus
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
– Stanley Kubrick
As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.
– Ted Kulongoski
I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.
– Ashton Kutcher
People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.
– Rick Kaplan
It is a great pleasure to live with positive hope that the most deprived will gain access into the Kingdom of God.
– Mathieu Kerekou
I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.
– Teresa Heinz Kerry
When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.
– Pauline R. Kezer
He dropped into the Potomac, ever so casually, a few great thoughts. One can only hope their ripples will reach out to all the limousined and tuxedoed policymakers.
– Rushworth M. Kidder
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more & all good things are yours.
– Dexter Scott King
With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.
– Billy Koch
Our people have always faced hardships with the hope that they will go away with the passing year and the coming year will bring welfare.
– Robert Kocharian
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
– Dean Koontz
Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.
– Alexandra Kosteniuk
Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth;Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust;Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace;Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe.
– Satish Kumar
Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it.
– Mary Landrieu
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
– John Lennon
Saddam Hussein has told his people that U.S. troops will commit suicide when they get to the gates of Baghdad. That's when you know you have a bad army, when your only hope for victory is that the enemy's troops kill themselves.
– Jay Leno
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
– Max Lerner
I'm in training right now for the lead role of Pete Schlong in the new adult movie Blue Peter. It's an exciting new departure for me. I hope to work on the stage, too. I've been invited to audition for the role of Demitrius in Titus Andronicus. He's one of two brothers who rape a girl and then cut her tongue out. A wise man.
– John Leslie
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
– Carl Levin
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
– Sinclair Lewis
I am sorry to find that Capts. Sarly & Kennedy are still detained in your harbor by the ships of War. I hope they will embrace the first good opportunity for going to sea.
– Francis Lewis
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
– Abraham Lincoln
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
– Abraham Lincoln
I understand why so many Americans were angry when I was first discovered in Afghanistan. I realize many still are, but I hope in time that feeling will change.
– John Walker Lindh
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I usually stick out my hand and hope he puts the ball in it. Except the one time I went out to take Early Wynn out. I stuck out my hand and he hit me right in the stomach with the ball.
– Al Lopez
I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.
– Richard Lugar