Hope Quotes

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
– Anne Lamott
It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.
– Edward Livingston
It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there.
– Frederick Loewe
I hope to bring all Singaporeans together, so that even though we may not all agree on this issue, we understand and respect each other's reasons and concerns, and can close ranks and move ahead.
– Lee Hsien Loong
I was born Jewish and so I remain, even if that's unacceptable for many. For me, the vocation of Israel is bringing light to the goyim. That's my hope and I believe that Christianity is the means for achieving it.
– Jean Marie Cardinal Lustiger
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
– John Lyly
We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
– General Douglas MacArthur
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.
– Tobey Maguire
People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to - to work for and hope for.
– Maxwell Maltz
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
– Paul de Man
I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
– Katherine Mansfield
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
– Orison Swett Marden
Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination.
– George C. Marshall
It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but future generations of American taxpayers. We're tying a millstone of debt around their necks, and it is a grave mistake.
– John McCain
Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.
– Bryant H. McGill
I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.
– Mark McGwire
This is a season I will never forget and I hope everybody in baseball never forgets.
– Mark McGwire
O Hope! dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.
– Aimee Semple McPherson
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
– Arthur Miller
I never made conscious choices. There were times in my life that I chose the first job that came along because I was broke. I think that there were maybe a handful of times that I had a choice. In recent years, I've had more of a choice, and it's been very nice to have that choice, but most of the time, you just hope that there's another job after this one.
– Alfred Molina
I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.
– Alfred Molina
I hope we don't lose in America this demand that those of us who want this office must be prepared not to handle the 10-second gimmick that deals, say, with little things like war and peace.
– Walter F. Mondale
Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.
– James Montgomery
The railroad, they said, was a natural monopoly; no private citizen could hope ever to own one; it was thus a kind of monster which, if encouraged, would override all popular rights.
– John Moody
I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.
– Viggo Mortensen
In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
– Rupert Murdoch
Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.
– John Murray
I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.
– Gabriel Mann
You never know how things are going to go. I think you hope that people are going to dig what you do and that you're going to get the chance to do it on a really comfortable level.
– Amanda Marshall
I know I achieved a lot, and I know I have my little share of respect, but when you talk about playoffs, there is no time to be mad, there is no time to complain, there is no soreness that you can't overcome or pain, sometimes, and I hope I continue to do it. I am going to leave my heart out there for my team.
– Pedro Martinez
I can honestly say this industry hasn't made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind of reflect that. They're meant to make you feel good.
– Stella McCartney
I hope we don't ever just kind of become Stepford Americans where everybody is just kind of going along and nodding their heads.
– Phillip C. McGraw
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
– Vincent McNabb
Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated.
– Albert Meltzer
I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
– Natalie Merchant
I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.
– Debbie Meyer
If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the end of our dreams.
– Archie Lee Moore
When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
– Dinah Maria Mulock
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
– Axel Munthe
An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.
– Ogden Nash
I have tried my best to keep the focus on the music, and not to focus on the stupid things we do as individuals. To me the music is far more important than our own personal relationships. It's going to outlast us, it will be here hopefully long after we're all dead, and we hope that our music will continue to speak to people's hearts and continue to make them feel less lonely and less crazy, even after we're gone.
– Graham Nash
I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.
– Martina Navratilova
Let us join with the Iraqi people in building a new Iraq, one that is founded not on the abuses of Abu Ghraib but on the hope for tomorrow. We can share the values together to eliminate abuse, to eliminate these atrocities and to set the record straight for the rest of the world.
– Ben Nelson
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
– Alfred Nobel
My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.
– P. J. O'Rourke
Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.
– Bobby Orr
Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.
– Bill Owens
In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.
– Bill Owens
Of course there is a huge in our material welfare, religious upbringing, and things like that. But things like your family, your house, your children's education, your hope for the future, are things that throughout the Muslim world they would share very easily with their counterparts in America.
– Michael Palin
I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.
– Robert Parker
I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs.
– Dolly Parton
Many people may be expecting a walking-talking clone of Arnold but I believe I've done my homework to the extent that the difference between us will be obvious. I'm playing a machine without emotion, but there's an intensity I'm really working hard at hitting that I hope will come through to the audience and scare the crap out of them.
– Robert Patrick
They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.
– John Pearson
Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
– William Penn
I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.
– William Petty
Even though I'm not gay, I think Clemens is such a brute that he deserves this legal action. He brought it on himself by being so butch on the mound. Being straight, and not gay at all, I hold hope that he can turn himself around and take his place in the beautiful rainbow that is Major League Baseball.
– Mike Piazza
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
– Ezra Pound
I also did a record because, as I've said, music has had such a huge impact on me all my life, and my hope was to affect others musically the way I was affected.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I wanted to put something real out there to end 35 years of speculation. My hope is that I can break through my legacy and earn my own credentials as an artist. Not for some stupid superficial reason, like I want to be a pop icon, but because it would make me feel more like I could hold my head up.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
– Matthew Prior
If that only desperate person were away as by justice soon it might be, the Queen's Majesty's good subjects would be in better hope and the papists' daily expectation vanquished.
– Matthew Parker
To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.
– Frances Perkins
There is an art to casting. And I hope we will see more ensemble films. I don't like star-led films, it's much better to have more stars in one film so that the audience can see them working together.
– Wolfgang Petersen
Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie.
– Lou Diamond Phillips
Where there's tea there's hope.
– Arthur W. Pinero
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
– Antonio Porchia
I must end it. There is no hope. I will be at peace. No one had anything to do with it. My decision totally.
– Freddie Prinze
If you liked this broadcast, we hope you'll watch it again tomorrow night and maybe tell your neighbors about it.
– Dan Rather
Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time (full) of joyful hope and profound gratitude.
– Joseph Ratzinger
Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.
– Joseph Ratzinger
Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.
– Jef I. Richards
I'm glad if women, men, boys are into the kick-ass movement. That gives me hope.
– Michelle Rodriguez
I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things: be an alcoholic; be a drug offender; beat their wife or husband; or gamble. I hope they would gamble.
– Pete Rose
Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.
– Christina G. Rossetti
In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.
– Charles Revson
When we finished Ordinary World we all looked at each other and said, if this doesn't work, then we're doing something wrong. But again, I have to say, as a complete album, I really think this one makes a statement that the other ones haven't yet. I mean, I hope we do an even better album in '98 or '99, but certainly this one has said a lot that I wanted to have Duran Duran say for the '90s.
– Nick Rhodes
I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.
– Diana Rigg
Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
– Frances Rodman
The No 7 shirt is an honour and a responsibility. I hope it brings me a lot of luck.
– Cristiano Ronaldo
For me, I hope to continue to the end, my struggle and life, to see a democratic, federative, united, prosperous Iraq, that Iraqi people will live in peace and prosperity, and Iraq will use its huge wealth for the benefit of the Iraqi people.
– Jalal Talabani
The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.
– Gay Talese
The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.
– Henry Taylor
Well, as the great chief is to determine the matter, I hope the Great Spirit will put sense enough into his head to induce him to direct you to give up this land. It is true, he is so far off he will not be injured by the war. He may sit still in his town, and drink his wine, while you and I will have to fight it out.
– Tecumseh
How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
– Terence
Where there's life, there's hope.
– Terence
You believe easily that which you hope for earnestly.
– Terence
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
– Tertullian
Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.
– Lily Tomlin
When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'
– Rip Torn
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
– A. W. Tozer
I have read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that you are an eight ulcer man on a four ulcer job Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes and perhaps a supporter below.
– Harry S. Truman
I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.
– Shania Twain
When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.
– Jessica Tandy
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
– Thales