Hope Quotes

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.
– Andrew Bird
You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.
– Knute Nelson
You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.
– Daniel H. Wilson
You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
– Camille Claudel
You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
– Cameron Diaz
You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.
– Marlon Wayans
You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.
– Mike Huckabee
You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.
– Jon Stewart
You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.
– Tom Waits
You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.
– Hugh Laurie
You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.
– Tony Kushner
You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty.
– Melissa Rosenberg
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
– Stephen King
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
– Wendell Phillips
Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.
– Kate Middleton
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
– Anne Stevenson
Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.
– Ken Hill
Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?
– John James Audubon
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
– Studs Terkel
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
– Friedrich Schiller
White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
– Idris Elba
Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.
– Martha Beck
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
– Michael Morpurgo
When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.
– Jason Reitman
When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
– Jack White
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
– Whoopi Goldberg
When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
– Paul Wellstone
When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.
– M. Night Shyamalan
When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
– Daisaku Ikeda
When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.
– Paula Deen
When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.
– Matthew Bourne
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
– Jim Henson
When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.
– Frank Gehry
When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.
– William J. Clinton
When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.
– Victoria Justice
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
– Ayn Rand
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
– Anne Lamott
Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
– Garth Brooks
What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.
– Lawrence Kasdan
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
– Samuel Johnson
What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.
– Elizabeth Edwards
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
– Mahatma Gandhi
What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.
– Nick Clegg
What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.
– Laura Linney
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
– Rose Kennedy
What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
– Haile Gebrselassie
Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.
– John Breaux
Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.
– Thom Yorke
Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.
– Stephen King
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
– Jeffrey Archer
We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.
– Rick Perry
We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.
– Wallace Shawn
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
– Emile M. Cioran
We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.
– Judith Viorst
We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'
– Studs Terkel
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
– Epictetus
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
– Michael Novak
We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.
– Malcolm Turnbull
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
– Kofi Annan
We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.
– Dick Cheney
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
– Ivan Illich
We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.
– Nate Ruess
We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.
– William Hague
We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.
– Atal Bihari Vajpayee
We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.
– John Boehner
We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
– King Abdullah II
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.
– Dionne Warwick
We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
– Dane Cook
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
– Jane Addams
Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.
– Mitt Romney
To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'
– Anna Kendrick
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
– Mikhail Bakunin
To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.
– Paul Ryan
To me, we're marketing hope.
– Joel Osteen
This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.
– Robert Mapplethorpe
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
– Lillian Hellman
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
– Anthony Trollope
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
– Tom Bodett
They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.
– Christopher Walken
They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
– Imran Khan
There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.
– Robert Smith Surtees
There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.
– Paul Auster
There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.
– Jonathan Sacks
There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride.
– Fuzzy Zoeller
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
– Bernard Williams
There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
– Gerard Way
There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.
– Thomas Frank
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
– Emma Goldman
There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.
– Emilio Estevez
There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.
– Howard Dean
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
– Max Eastman
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
– Barbara Kingsolver
The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.
– George Lucas
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
– Warren Buffett
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
– Anne Lamott
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
– Audre Lorde
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
The other day I got a text from a boy, but it wasn't hot. I mean, if you're going to text me every day, you haven't seen me for months and you're trying to seduce me, you'd better spice up that text and make it more exciting than 'How was your day? I hope you're having a beautiful one.' Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.
– Chloe Sevigny