Hope Quotes

‘Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.’ – Epicurus

‘We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.’ – Desmond Tutu

‘Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.’ – Elbert Hubbard

‘Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘To live without Hope is to Cease to live.’ – Fyodor Dostoevsky

‘Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.’ – Samuel Smiles

‘Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.’ – Joseph Addison

‘Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.’ – Vaclav Havel

‘Hope is a waking dream.’ – Aristotle

‘I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.’ – Dalai Lama

‘Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.’ – Jonas Salk

‘Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.’ – Robert H. Schuller

‘He that lives upon hope will die fasting.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.’ – Magic Johnson

‘Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.’ – John Wayne

‘What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.’ – Rick Warren

‘We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.’ – Aristotle Onassis

‘Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles is not a realist.’ – David Ben-Gurion

‘You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.’ – Michelle Obama

‘God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.’ – Billy Graham

‘Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.’ – Alexandre Dumas

‘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

‘Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.’ – Alexander Pope

‘I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.’ – Epictetus

‘There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.’ – Lillian Hellman

‘My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.’ – Jim Henson

‘Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.’ – Martin Luther

‘Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.’ – Pliny the Elder

‘The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.’ – Edward Kennedy

‘God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.’ – Chester W. Nimitz

‘You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.’ – Charles M. Schulz

‘I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.’ – Anne Frank

‘Hope is patience with the lamp lit.’ – Tertullian

‘I always entertain great hopes.’ – Robert Frost

‘Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.’ – Danny Boyle

‘The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.’ – Norman Cousins

‘Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?’ – Barack Obama

‘Hope will never be silent.’ – Harvey Milk

‘The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.’ – Charlotte Bronte

‘Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.’ – Henry Rollins

‘Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.’ – Seamus Heaney

‘If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.’ – W. C. Fields

‘Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.’ – Mark Twain

‘Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.’ – Francis Bacon

‘Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.’ – Calvin Coolidge

‘The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.’ – Thomas Hardy

‘Hope is tomorrow’s veneer over today’s disappointment.’ – Evan Esar

‘I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.’ – Francois Rabelais

‘It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.’ – William Makepeace Thackeray

‘The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.’ – Richard Rohr

‘You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.’ – Terence

‘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

‘Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.’ – Victor Hugo

‘I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.’ – Arthur Ashe

‘Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.’ – Mason Cooley

‘Hope is a risk that must be run.’ – Georges Bernanos

‘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

‘I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.’ – John James Audubon

‘Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.’ – Marcus Garvey

‘The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.’ – Friedrich Durrenmatt

‘In this world you’ve just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.’ – Lucy Maud Montgomery

‘One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.’ – Antonio Porchia

‘Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.’ – Oliver Goldsmith

‘We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.’ – Ivan Illich

‘All hope abandon, ye who enter here!’ – Dante Alighieri

‘Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.’ – Vaclav Havel

‘Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.’ – Martha Beck

‘When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.’ – Charles L. Allen

‘I always believe things are going to work out.’ – Francoise Sagan

‘Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘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

‘It’s time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain’t working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.’ – Herman Cain

‘There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.’ – Anwar Sadat

‘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

‘Beware how you take away hope from another human being.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

‘You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces – my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.’ – Elizabeth Edwards

‘The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.’ – Will Durant

‘Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.’ – Aristotle

‘Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.’ – Arnold H. Glasow

‘Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘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

‘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

‘There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.’ – Jonas Salk

‘Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘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

‘The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.’ – Ivan Illich

‘Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.’ – Epictetus

‘Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.’ – Vaclav Havel

‘Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.’ – Norman Cousins

‘I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.’ – Bryant H. McGill

‘I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.’ – Joel Osteen

‘We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.’ – Elizabeth Bibesco

‘How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.’ – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

‘Hope is a talent like any other.’ – Storm Jameson

‘I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish – that’s what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.’ – Louis C. K.

‘All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.’ – Helen Keller

‘I’m just so happy, and I’m grateful for my fans. I just hope I keep doing work that they love.’ – Jennifer Aniston

‘It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.’ – Robert H. Goddard

‘Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.’ – Maya Angelou

‘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

‘I’ve always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world.’ – Britney Spears

‘The youth is the hope of our future.’ – Jose Rizal

‘A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.’ – Brad Henry

‘Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’ when things are tough.’ – Richard M. DeVos

‘He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.’ – Winston Churchill

‘There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘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

‘You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.’ – Marie Curie

‘A leader is a dealer in hope.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.’ – Dale Carnegie

‘I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.’ – Walt Disney

‘I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.’ – Nikos Kazantzakis

‘Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.’ – Bradley Whitford

‘There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.’ – Bernard Williams

‘I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.’ – J. Cole

‘Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.’ – Linda Thompson

‘We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.’ – Ed Markey

‘Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.’ – Jane Goodall

‘If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.’ – Kurt Cobain

‘Where there is no vision, there is no hope.’ – George Washington Carver

‘Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘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

‘The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.’ – Ram Charan

‘I hope not to define myself by suffering.’ – Frank Ocean

‘Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.’ – Patricia Cornwell

‘I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.’ – Lou Holtz

‘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

‘Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don’t. You are in good company… You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.’ – John Piper

‘Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.’ – Raymond Williams

‘I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.’ – Craig T. Nelson

‘My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.’ – Jack Layton

‘I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.’ – Neil Gaiman

‘My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.’ – Robert Fulghum

‘Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.’ – Robert Frank

‘In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.’ – Tena Desae

‘I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I’m more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.’ – Lionel Messi

‘There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.’ – George Eliot

‘A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘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

‘I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.’ – George Washington

‘I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.’ – Elvis Presley

‘The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.’ – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

‘If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.’ – Henry Ford

‘What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?’ – Immanuel Kant

‘A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.’ – Howard Thurman

‘When you create Hope in people, you create expectations. When you do not fulfill those expectations, when the change becomes more of the same old, same old, the Hope that was created can only turn to anger, frustration and bitter disappointment.’ – Vermin Supreme

‘Everybody has a different journey. Everybody has a different path, and you don’t really know what to expect. All you know is to just keep plugging away, and you hope something will come through and something will happen.’ – Grace Gealey

‘Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.’ – Arthur Miller

‘Without hope we are lost.’ – Mahmoud Darwish

‘This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.’ – Carl Jung

‘The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes – or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two – is gone.’ – Omar Khayyam

‘The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.’ – Wendell Berry

‘There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.’ – Paul Auster

‘Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.’ – Robert Browning

‘The great gift of Easter is hope – Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.’ – Basil Hume

‘The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, ‘Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.” – Paul Theroux

‘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

‘I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!’ – Sai Baba

‘With so much conflict in the world, space exploration can be a beacon of hope.’ – Anne McClain

‘Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘The Special Olympics motto, ‘Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,’ really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that’s all any of us can hope for – a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream.’ – Hannah Teter

‘Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.’ – Lewis B. Smedes

‘While there’s life, there’s hope.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.’ – Jack Kerouac

‘Where I am today… I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.’ – Demi Lovato

‘Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.’ – William S. Burroughs

‘No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.’ – George Chakiris

‘Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out.’ – Christopher Reeve

‘There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.’ – Erik Erikson

‘I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.’ – Rene Descartes

‘Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.’ – Charles Kettering

‘Journalists say a thing that they know isn’t true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.’ – Arnold Bennett

‘As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.’ – Ursula K. Le Guin

‘Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.’ – Anselm Kiefer

‘The role of culture is that it’s the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we’ve been, where we hope to be.’ – Wendell Pierce

‘Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.’ – Mattie Stepanek

‘I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it’s all been late.’ – Mandy Patinkin

‘There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.’ – Kurt Vonnegut

‘I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.’ – Rachel Corrie

‘I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.’ – Gillian Anderson

‘I think if there’s a great depression there might be some hope.’ – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

‘Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.’ – Bruce Barton

‘Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.’ – Jane Austen

‘What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.’ – Albert Camus

‘Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity.’ – Sharan Burrow

‘The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.’ – Ralph Bunche

‘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

‘Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.’ – Narendra Modi

‘We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.’ – Victoria Osteen

‘Marriage is the death of hope.’ – Woody Allen

‘I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘Remember me when you do pray, that hope doth lead from day to day.’ – Anne Boleyn

‘Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.’ – William Cowper

‘Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things – with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.’ – Corazon Aquino

‘Nothing is black or white, nothing’s ‘us or them.’ 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

‘I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in.’ – Don Nickles

‘I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.’ – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

‘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

‘A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.’ – David Hume

‘Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.’ – Thomas Aquinas

‘I don’t really need to be remembered. I hope the music’s remembered.’ – Jeff Buckley

‘We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.’ – Gene Cernan

‘The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.’ – Frank Lloyd Wright

‘If we die, we want people to accept it. We’re in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.’ – Gus Grissom

‘When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.’ – N. R. Narayana Murthy

‘We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.’ – Pope Francis

‘From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.’ – Algernon Charles Swinburne

‘Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings.’ – James Baldwin

‘There is beauty in our roots. Sometimes we think our roots are shameful, and people tell you that you’re no good or your ancestors are no good or that you come from a neighborhood of no hope and terrible crime. But it’s about the beauty of those places, and I carry that with me.’ – Luis Alberto Urrea

‘As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.’ – Alice Walker

‘Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.’ – Benjamin Banneker

‘Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, ‘This is me, and I’m interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.” – Ashton Kutcher

‘Seven decades after it was struck by an atom bomb, Hiroshima is a city of peace and hope.’ – Fumio Kishida

‘My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. ‘Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you’re stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem – just move on to the next. ‘Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.” – Demetri Martin

‘Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.’ – William Samuel Johnson

‘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

‘Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.’ – Vincent McNabb

‘If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.’ – Orville Wright

‘Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope.’ – John Lewis

‘My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.’ – Dorothea Dix

‘The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.’ – John Buchan

‘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

‘That’s all a man can hope for during his lifetime – to set an example – and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.’ – William McKinley

‘War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli

‘The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.’ – Jacques Yves Cousteau

‘When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘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

‘Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.’ – Napoleon Hill

”Expect nothing and hope for the best’ is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it’s the best advice I’ve had. If you keep an open mind and don’t expect too much, then you won’t be disappointed.’ – Michelle Dockery

‘I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.’ – C. V. Raman

‘You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you’re putting out there, if it’s received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it’s not received, great, I respect you for not.’ – Octavia Spencer

‘Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.’ – Daniel Burnham

‘Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.’ – Ravi Zacharias

‘When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!’ – John Wesley

‘Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.’ – bell hooks

‘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

‘Often, small things give me hope when big things feel so oppressively bleak.’ – Julien Baker

‘Comebacks don’t seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God’s power to reverse the irreversible in your life.’ – Tony Evans

‘All I can do is leave it in God’s hands and hope that my fans feel where I’m coming from.’ – Aaliyah

‘It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.’ – Patrick Henry

‘Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.’ – Karl A. Menninger

‘Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.’ – Lu Xun

‘Who would want one’s children growing up buying things like bitcoin? I hope to God my family doesn’t buy it. It’s noxious poison.’ – Charlie Munger

‘I’m great at a deathbed. I’ve never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I’ve given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.’ – Patch Adams

‘I smoked for almost 10 years. I really regret that. Thankfully, I came out on the other side. I hope my lungs are repairing themselves now.’ – Michelle Monaghan

‘I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.’ – Nipsey Hussle

‘Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.’ – John Adams

‘There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.’ – Baruch Spinoza

‘Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.’ – Kehinde Wiley

‘When I receive an award it gives me more encouragement, hope and drive to go forward with my voice to sing better and better.’ – Kumar Sanu

‘I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.’ – Janine di Giovanni

‘Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.’ – Ogden Nash

‘I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.’ – Marlee Matlin

‘The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.’ – Ellen G. White

‘How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.’ – Niels Bohr

‘Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they’re passionate about, something that’s challenging and worthwhile.’ – Ellen Ochoa

‘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

‘Hope looks forward. Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly.’ – Florence Scovel Shinn

‘I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.’ – Francois Mauriac

‘I am very much looking forward to new adventures – including, I hope, Broadway – sooner rather than later.’ – Kenneth Branagh

‘Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.’ – Jane Addams

‘I hope people stop judging others by blindly following rumors.’ – Sara Khan

‘I do my work and do the best I can. I’m quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, ‘That’s my dad!” – Eamonn Walker

‘No, I’m not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.’ – Jay-Z

‘An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.’ – Emil Zatopek

‘Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.’ – Ada Lovelace

‘Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.’ – Thomas Merton

‘There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.’ – H. R. Giger

‘We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.’ – Roger Wilkins

‘Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.’ – Jean Kerr

‘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 M. Nixon

‘Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.’ – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

‘You tell them that all your experience tells you this is the best way to beat this particular opposition. You persuade them and you drill them, and you tell them so many times they can hear you when they go to sleep. Then, on the day of the game, you stand on the touchline and hope to God that it works.’ – Carlo Ancelotti

‘In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.’ – Charles Revson

‘A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don’t have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.’ – Robert Kraft

‘Beyond remembering me as a good goalkeeper or a bad goalkeeper, I just hope that people remember me for being a good person.’ – Iker Casillas

‘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

‘Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.’ – Thales

‘I hope the millions of people I’ve touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.’ – Michael Jordan

‘Many big and small things happen in our lives, almost on daily basis, and I hope that everyone would not lose the trust that they have in themselves, and never lose positive attitude.’ – Gong Hyo-jin

‘Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised.’ – Mo Ibrahim

‘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

‘In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.’ – Lemmy

‘You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.’ – Samuel Ullman

‘I had to stop going to auditions thinking, ‘Oh, I hope they like me.’ I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.’ – George Clooney

‘Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.’ – Alexander Hamilton

‘I wouldn’t trade this experience for the world, and I hope I get to be a part of ‘The Voice’ for as long as I can.’ – Brynn Cartelli

‘At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can’t.’ – Rodney Dangerfield

‘Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.’ – Reinhold Niebuhr

‘For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.’ – Owen Arthur

‘Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.’ – B. H. Liddell Hart

‘As captain, I want us to be ambitious; I want us to be winners – but above all, I hope we will show how much we love the game by passing the ball and achieving success through our technical and tactical approach.’ – Steph Houghton

‘Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.’ – George Weinberg

‘Our only hope is to control the vote.’ – Medgar Evers

‘I just hope I can give positive energy to the squad.’ – Vincent Janssen

‘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

‘When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.’ – Malcolm Forbes

‘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

‘Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.’ – Claude Debussy

‘We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that’s possible and pain that’s all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘As for restitutions, to nobody in particular do I owe any, but as for those I owe to the realm, I hope in the mercy of God.’ – Louis XIV

‘I lived a permissive, fast, and reckless lifestyle. I hope I can serve as a warning that living this lifestyle can really lead to only one thing, and that’s misery.’ – Tommy Morrison

‘I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‘race’ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.’ – Margaret Atwood

‘Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.’ – Don Rickles

‘Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.’ – Matthew McConaughey

‘At a pivotal time in my life, Barack Obama gave me hope that a boy who grew up like me could still achieve the most important of my dreams. For that, I’ll miss him and the example he set.’ – J. D. Vance

‘No matter what era we’re in, we need hope.’ – Henry Cavill

‘If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don’t do it, and it won’t happen.’ – Desiderius Erasmus

‘I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘I hope for peace and sanity – it’s the same thing.’ – Studs Terkel

‘I only cast the actors and actresses I fall in love with – truly having an emotion for them, an anticipation and enthusiasm when seeing them – and I believe that my emotional confidence in them blends into chemistry. It’s always been like that, and I hope I won’t be wrong in the future.’ – Luca Guadagnino

‘Hope is but the dream of those who wake.’ – Matthew Prior

‘I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.’ – Calvin Johnson

‘Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it’ll do some good.’ – Samantha Smith

‘The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.’ – Walter Benjamin

‘I don’t know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.’ – Mark Knopfler

‘Hope is the poor man’s bread.’ – Gary Herbert

‘In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.’ – Dean Devlin

‘It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.’ – Edsger Dijkstra

‘Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right – when he knocks you down, you’ll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘If there’s a golf course in heaven, I hope it’s like Augusta National. I just don’t want an early tee time.’ – Gary Player

‘He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.’ – B. C. Forbes

‘I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.’ – Lady Gaga

‘We always have hope. Hope dies last.’ – Granit Xhaka

‘The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.’ – Aberjhani

‘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

‘I don’t believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you’re in serious trouble.’ – Jack Nicklaus

‘I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.’ – Yves Saint Laurent

‘My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.’ – Frei Otto

‘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

‘I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.’ – Gerald R. Ford

‘What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?’ – Rose Kennedy

‘Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.’ – Ovid

‘It’s a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.’ – Jean-Pierre Raffarin

‘It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘I’m a good person, I hope. But I’m never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.’ – David Tennant

‘I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.’ – Pope John Paul II

‘I’m not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.’ – Mae Jemison

‘The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.’ – Edgar Allan Poe

‘Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.’ – Emanuel Cleaver

‘It is our hope that Palestine will soon be welcomed to the community of nations with full – in my opinion – full membership in the United Nations.’ – Mwai Kibaki

‘And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.’ – Patti Davis

‘This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.’ – Lord Byron

‘I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I’m going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, ‘It ain’t bad, but it ain’t San Francisco.” – Herb Caen

‘I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.’ – Mahershala Ali

‘Even in the face of the greatest adversity, the key is to never lose hope, never lose sense of the dream that drives you.’ – Chris Claremont

”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

‘So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.’ – Yoshio Taniguchi

‘I hope to be like Bill Gates, bro. With all the money in the world.’ – Young Thug

‘Even in our moment of greatest darkness, there is light. And there is hope. And there is hope not only for our own lives, but we should be hopeful about our ability to change the world.’ – Ritchie Torres

”West Wing’ was huge. Like ‘Hamilton,’ it pulls back the curtain on how decision-making happens at the highest level, or at least how you hope it would be. The amount of information Aaron Sorkin packs into a scene gave me this courage to trust the audience to keep up.’ – Lin-Manuel Miranda

‘God put me on this earth to bring souls back to the Kingdom of God. You don’t need to pray ten times a day – you just need hope. My music is going to stop war; it’s the healing music. I see myself in Brazil, in Syria, in Darfur, and places where they really need hope.’ – Tory Lanez

‘Don’t hope someone gives you an opportunity: create one for yourself.’ – Shannon Sharpe

‘In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.’ – William Bligh

‘I hope that everyone has the opportunity, whatever their work environment may be, to be surrounded by people that they respect and are inspired by.’ – Janet Varney

‘If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.’ – E. M. Forster

‘It took me a long time to write again because Katrina destroyed the home I loved, and that robbed me of hope.’ – Jesmyn Ward

‘Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.’ – Ouida

‘In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.’ – Steve Wozniak

‘Some days I’m up, some days I’m down. But I think one thing that does get you moving is hope.’ – August Alsina

‘I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.’ – Sonia Sotomayor

‘Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.’ – Franz Schubert

‘I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.’ – Irvin S. Cobb

‘Human life moves only in one direction – toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren’t as bad as they’ve become for you.’ – Thomas Ligotti

‘Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake.’ – Thomas Frey

‘When I meet children and people who suffer, when they mention any kind of pain, emotional pain, physical pain, I know what they need, because it’s the same thing I need. They need healing, they need peace, they need joy, they need hope.’ – Phan Thi Kim Phuc

‘I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.’ – Tim Berners-Lee

‘We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We’re haunted by our particular demons.’ – Sara Zarr

‘You hope to bring your ‘A Game’ to any game, and of course you do in a final. You hope to bring experience, fitness, communication skills, motivational skills.’ – Edwin van der Sar

‘The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking.’ – Vaclav Smil

‘Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.’ – Anne Wilson Schaef

‘I hope I die before I get old.’ – Roger Daltrey

‘Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘There is hope for humanity, but in order for us to get there, we really have to interrogate not just what it takes to change laws, but what it takes to change culture that supports laws that uplift humanity and also supports laws that serve to denigrate it.’ – Alicia Garza

‘Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they’re getting back together. You know what that means? There’s still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.’ – Jay Leno

‘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

‘Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.’ – William Wordsworth

‘Artworks are especially good at helping our psyches in a variety of ways: they rebalance our moods, lend us hope, usher in calm, stretch our sympathies, reignite our senses, and reawaken appreciation.’ – Alain de Botton

‘Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.’ – John Ciardi

‘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

‘The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America’s torch alone. But it is America’s duty – and honor – to hold it high enough that all the world can see its light.’ – Mitt Romney

‘Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.’ – Christina Rossetti

‘God, I hope I wear this jersey forever.’ – Derek Jeter

‘To hunger is to be alive and to hope.’ – Crescent Dragonwagon

‘I hope I’m saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind.’ – Stephanie Kwolek

‘The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife’s spirits.’ – John Gay

‘History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.’ – Gore Vidal

‘I hope people remember me for the kind of person that I am, not because of what I do.’ – Sean Faris

‘I would hope the first heartbreak anniversary is the only time you feel it, and then after that, you don’t really even notice.’ – Giveon

‘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 hope that I can be a role model and positive influence to anyone else who is struggling with insecurities within themselves.’ – Alexa Bliss

‘Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.’ – Herman Melville

‘Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.’ – Ernest Lawrence

‘The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.’ – Edmund Burke

‘I hope that I will be the last victim in China’s long record of treating words as crimes.’ – Liu Xiaobo

‘I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.’ – Brian Clough

‘I hope that we always have diversity, that we have equality and representation every step of the way.’ – Marsai Martin

‘On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, ‘I hope you all like where you’re sitting, because these are your permanent seats.” – Jeff Kinney

‘Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.’ – Stephen Jay Gould

‘My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them. The king will not have the same weaknesses as his grandfather. I hope that he will have no favorites; but I am afraid that he is too mild and too easy. You may depend upon it that I will not draw the king into any great expenses.’ – Marie Antoinette

‘Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.’ – Jim Valvano

‘I’m really interested in the collaborative thing. It’s what makes it scary because you never know what it’s going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you’re completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It’s like this mutual delusion.’ – Meryl Streep

‘Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself – and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good – but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.’ – Rachel Cusk

‘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 are a G20 country. One of the biggest world economies. We’re in the middle of three continents. Changing Saudi Arabia for the better means helping the region and changing the world. So this is what we are trying to do here. And we hope we get support from everyone.’ – Mohammad bin Salman

‘I remember when we were in Egypt as refugees. It was tough, but there was always hope – hope that there’s light at the end of the tunnel.’ – Luol Deng

‘We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.’ – William Sloane Coffin

‘I’m learning all the time. I’m evolving all the time as a human being. I’m getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.’ – Neil Peart

‘Festival culture is all about evolving consciousness and generating a sense of unity, hope, and possibility.’ – Alex Grey

‘Every place has a story – or a thousand stories. Findery brings places to life, be they where you stand or where you hope to go.’ – Caterina Fake

‘People who have made their name in this film industry have called it a gutter. I completely disagree. I hope that the government tells such people not to use this kind of language.’ – Jaya Bachchan

‘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

‘Whiskey’s to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.’ – Tom T. Hall

‘Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly, greater than human levels of intelligence, this could be the seeds of hope for our future.’ – David Hanson

‘Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.’ – Friedrich Schiller

‘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

‘One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear – you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.’ – Max Lucado

‘Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.’ – Sarah Ban Breathnach

‘Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn’t filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.’ – Naomi Klein

‘I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden.’ – Shashi Tharoor

‘Comedy is defiance. It’s a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it’s the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.’ – Will Durst

‘I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.’ – Robert E. Lee

‘I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.’ – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

‘As consumers adopt crypto, we hope that they’ll also be interested in trading equities and options.’ – Baiju Bhatt

‘When you go into the other guy’s backyard you cannot hope to win on points.’ – Lennox Lewis

‘I hope to die in the saddle seat.’ – Albert Ellis

‘Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘When I’m 40, I’m gonna look back, and I really, really hope I won’t regret anything.’ – Sean O’Malley

‘I’m still growing, still learning. I’m still open and vulnerable enough to know there’s much more to be taught to me and learned by me. I hope I don’t reach my pinnacle on this earth where I think I know it all.’ – Savion Glover

‘I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.’ – James Herriot

‘I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it’s pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.’ – Harry Nilsson

‘Amid apocalyptic dystopia, ‘Fahrenheit 451”s protagonist retains sparks of curiosity, creativity, and courage, and these human characteristics are the seeds of hope that can arise, phoenix-like, from civilization’s ashes.’ – Heidi Hammel

‘I just can’t think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already… It’s too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.’ – Otto Frank

‘I hope I haven’t grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don’t want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I’m holding on to that.’ – Catherine Hardwicke

‘It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.’ – Richard P. Feynman

‘I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That’s all any of us can hope for.’ – April Winchell

‘When I was in high school, there was ‘Superbad’ and ‘The Girl Next Door’ and ‘Wedding Crashers’ and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that’s smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like ‘Superbad.’ That movie was so good and so funny.’ – Miles Teller

‘Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.’ – James Montgomery

‘On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!’ – Alexander Henry

‘As citizens, we have to co-create good governance, we cannot outsource it and hope to be passively happy consumers. Like everything worth its while, good governance must be earned.’ – Rohini Nilekani

‘I want to be remembered as, I hope, an amazing husband and a great father.’ – Jason Momoa

‘America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.’ – Paul Tsongas

‘It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people’s decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.’ – Kirk Cameron

‘Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.’ – Loretta Lynn

‘I hope my own children never have to fight a war.’ – George H. W. Bush

‘Every time you dive, you hope you’ll see something new – some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn’t.’ – James Cameron

‘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

‘The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.’ – Os Guinness

‘If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.’ – David Brainerd

‘I hope we’ll be able to solve these problems before we leave.’ – Paul Erdos

‘There is nothing in the world I wouldn’t do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn’t do for me… We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.’ – Bing Crosby

‘People had lost trust in governance. Getting back that trust, instilling a sense of hope and belief that good governance and development would be back on track, is my biggest achievement.’ – Yogi Adityanath

‘The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region. We also hope that the United States will fully respect and accommodate the major interests and legitimate concerns of Asia-Pacific countries.’ – Xi Jinping

‘Germany has become a country that many people abroad associate with hope.’ – Angela Merkel

‘Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.’ – Anthony Hopkins

‘Usually, if you notice good cinematography, then the cinematographer’s failing. I try to make light feel like it’s always motivated and natural in some way and hope that the lighting goes unnoticed.’ – Rachel Morrison

‘I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives.’ – Peter Diamandis

‘Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the ‘deity.” – John Henrik Clarke

‘If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.’ – Eldridge Cleaver

‘Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.’ – Thornton Wilder

‘You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.’ – Kim Yuna

‘I would like to leave the world a better place than when I entered it. I would hope that by the time I die I could have learned from the years of living and hand something down.’ – Albert Hammond, Jr.

‘I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.’ – Bob Uecker

‘There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘I hope I’m better today than I was yesterday. I don’t believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!’ – Edie Brickell

‘I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.’ – Chelsea Clinton

‘The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.’ – Uzodinma Iweala

‘But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.’ – John Perry Barlow

‘Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don’t need religion.’ – Penn Jillette

‘You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.’ – Stephen King

‘I don’t want to hope anymore. I don’t think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.’ – will.i.am

‘I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.’ – Queen Elizabeth II

‘Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.’ – Rudy Giuliani

‘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

‘Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘Where there’s tea there’s hope.’ – Arthur Wing Pinero

‘My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I’m also very proud of being a very American chef.’ – Bobby Flay

‘Peace is necessary. For justice, it is necessary. For hope, it is necessary, for our future.’ – Harry Belafonte

‘Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.’ – Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

‘Change is definitely every day. It’s an ever-changing world. Everything changes, so I really don’t know. I just hope I become a better person, a better man.’ – J.I.D

‘Hope is the raw material of losers.’ – Fernando Flores

‘In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it’s always about the next challenge.’ – Tony Blair

‘The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.’ – James Madison

‘The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated… That’s what you hope for.’ – Gerard Butler

‘I had a really hard time in Orange County. I was a nerd. I was watching foreign cinema when I was 13 and talking about how ‘Hope and Glory’ should be a foreign film.’ – Pedro Pascal

‘I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.’ – Rihanna

‘I’ve stated my position, and that is we do not need a contraption to play the game of golf. I would hope that we’d play under one set of rules, and those rules would include a ban on the long putter hooked to the body in some way, shape or form.’ – Arnold Palmer

‘For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I’ve encouraged other people to do the same.’ – Lucy Lawless

‘I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don’t return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn’t want that to happen, would you.’ – Andy Rooney

‘I only hope that He will let me preach to those who have never heard that name Jesus. What else is worthwhile in this life? I have heard of nothing better. ‘Lord, send me!” – Jim Elliot

‘I’ve said to people before that I’m going to do my very best to make it, and I’m not going to give up. And that’s true. But I might not make it. And if I don’t make it, the Marathon of Hope better continue.’ – Terry Fox

‘Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘I hope Lee’s scandal isn’t real.’ – Lin Dan

‘There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.’ – Anil Kapoor

‘The gap between the young people and the rest of society is that… young people don’t have hope.’ – Sister Souljah

‘Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I’ve played.’ – Ian Mckellen

‘Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.’ – Charles Lindbergh

‘I am closest to my mother, as she is my rock, my pillar of strength, and my world. Not only has she stood by me through all times – happy, sad, and otherwise – but there have even been moments when I had completely lost hope, and her immense belief in me had lifted me up.’ – Amruta Khanvilkar

‘I am not skilled enough or energetic enough to craft a persona. I just have to be who I am and hope people like it.’ – Pete Buttigieg

‘Life goes on, and I’m moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.’ – Susan Lucci

‘I think I have the best house in the world. I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.’ – Max Azria

‘It’s sad when you can’t make everyone happy, though. It’s impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, ‘Maybe I can do it,’ but you know you can’t. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn’t get it right.’ – Stephenie Meyer

‘I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.’ – Gustave Courbet

‘If we are to have a war with America, we will have no hope of winning unless the U.S. fleet in Hawaiian waters can be destroyed.’ – Isoroku Yamamoto

‘I hope all you young girls see yourself up there… we were just like you.’ – Mia Hamm

‘I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that’s success.’ – Tim Cook

‘The only way I’d be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.’ – Dolly Parton

‘I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.’ – Bobby Fischer

‘I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.’ – L. Ron Hubbard

‘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

‘And right now I may just be living inside the heart of the body, and I one day hope to move to the brain.’ – Terrence Howard

‘If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.’ – Lance Armstrong

‘To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.’ – Saint Basil

‘Returning to WWE before retiring is not a question of whether they want to or I want to return. Neither I hope nor want to return, nor do they expect me to return or want me to return.’ – Alberto Del Rio

‘Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.’ – Steven Wright

‘I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.’ – Clive Sinclair

‘I’m different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different.’ – Johnny Weir

‘Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.’ – William Inge

‘It’s tragic from how far we’ve come from ‘Hope and Change’.’ – Ted Cruz

‘We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.’ – Epictetus

‘I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain’t no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God’s face.’ – Fannie Lou Hamer

‘When I went to Vietnam in 1971 with Bob Hope, we went to Da Nang, which was a Marine base. I just have to say it was one of the biggest thrills I have ever had.’ – Jim Nabors

‘Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.’ – Jane McGonigal

‘My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.’ – Andrew Young

‘Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.’ – John Murray

‘Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.’ – Gertrude Stein

‘Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.’ – Edward Gibbon

‘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

‘Cosmetics makers have always sold ‘hope in a jar’ – creams and potions that promise youth, beauty, sex appeal, and even love for the women who use them.’ – Virginia Postrel

‘Kids are our future, and we hope baseball has given them some idea of what it is to live together and how we can get along, whether you be black or white.’ – Larry Doby

‘Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.’ – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

‘Reggae music is a music of integrity; reggae’s consciousness was built on a message. My music speaks of love, equality and spirituality, and I would hope that one finds this integrity in my music.’ – Stephen Marley

‘Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.’ – Wilfred Owen

‘I hope that we continue with exploration.’ – Margaret H. Hamilton

‘What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.’ – Theodor Herzl

‘Amateurs hope, professionals work.’ – Garson Kanin

‘When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.’ – Queen Rania of Jordan

‘Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.’ – Rebecca Solnit

‘I would hope that, for me, regardless of what happens in my career in the future, I always want to maintain a level of humility. I think it’s so important to not lose yourself and to just understand that you’re a conduit.’ – Paul Wesley

‘The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.’ – Edward Tufte

‘Through my studies, I became increasingly disillusioned with the international aid system. I think we systematically deny poor people the chance to engage as equals in the global economic order. At best, we give them handouts or tiny loans and hope they will suffer a bit less from extreme poverty. We don’t view them as equals.’ – Leila Janah

‘I couldn’t be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I’m pretty optimistic.’ – Jacqueline Woodson

‘As we wander, grieving, in yet another dark moment, amid our pain we must struggle to remember the redemptive power of love and hope.’ – Ephraim Mirvis

‘My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.’ – Taya Kyle

‘Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.’ – Frank Ocean

‘I’m thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. I’ve always been a motivational resource for my younger sisters and hope I can positively impact and inspire other young girls too.’ – Khloe Kardashian

‘In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting – not ever.’ – Farrah Fawcett

‘My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.’ – David Simon

‘We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics – we are doing ideas. This is about hope.’ – Jeremy Corbyn

‘We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.’ – Mahmoud Abbas

‘I always see the glass half full. I see the beauty in others, and I see the hope for tomorrow. If we don’t have hope and faith, we have nothing.’ – Craig Sager

‘Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail.’ – Charles Sturridge

‘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

‘I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I’m gonna do, what I can do, what I can’t do. I’ve been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don’t have to. But if I did, I’d be able to do it. I’m not going to enjoy dying, but there’s not much prep for that.’ – Carrie Fisher

‘When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.’ – Dalai Lama

”You are no saint,’ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘I hope people can envision a future where we as humans have robots that are alongside us, assisting in our daily lives.’ – Grant Imahara

‘One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.’ – Thomas Reed

‘I desire a greatness of soul, an irradiance of mind, a deeper insight, a broader hope.’ – Richard Jefferies

‘When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.’ – Burt Reynolds

‘Let there be freedom for the Indians, wherever they may be in the American Continent or elsewhere in the world, because while they are alive, a glow of hope will be alive as well as a true concept of life.’ – Rigoberta Menchu

‘I just hope that as I get older, I calm down and enjoy the moment, enjoy the great gifts that God has given me.’ – Alex Rodriguez

‘Whenever you have an ex, and they’re like, ‘I hope we can still be friends!’ and you weren’t friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?’ – Ed Sheeran

‘The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.’ – Ron Suskind

‘I really hope that America can end the evil of abortion.’ – Marjorie Taylor Greene

‘Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.’ – Colin Powell

‘Football itself is a great sport with which we are proud to be associated. We want to be proud to be associated with FIFA and hope and look forward to working with them to that end.’ – Charles W. Scharf

‘My mother-in-law said, ‘One day I will dance on your grave.’ I said ‘I hope you do; I will be buried at sea.” – Les Dawson

‘Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.’ – George Savile

‘Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.’ – Anne Lamott

‘I hope that more Canadians will become interested in in how the inflation rate target affects our purchasing power, our standard of living and therefore our life.’ – Maxime Bernier

‘I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don’t quite know how to explain it but it’s there. These can’t be the only notes in the world, there’s got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.’ – Marvin Gaye

‘I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.’ – Nick Vujicic

‘I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music – gospel, blues, jazz and R&B – is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I’m telling you.’ – Quincy Jones

‘I don’t hope for anything. Not only in my professional life, but in my family life also. My total lifestyle is like that.’ – Mohanlal

‘Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.’ – Max Weber

‘Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.’ – Kim Campbell

‘My hope is that people experience the music and, in that, something works in them, that they realise how exceptional they are. Maybe that it inspires them to do something great in their own lives.’ – Lauren Daigle

‘One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.’ – George Allen, Sr.

‘I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I’m always going back in time.’ – Dara Horn

‘Hope is the denial of reality.’ – Margaret Weis

‘I’m an avid University of Miami Hurricanes fan. I hope to come to the day where I can still do some stuff for NBC and somehow integrate it with an RV tour of the South for college football. Luckily, my wife, she’s a Florida State alum, so I wouldn’t have to talk her into it. I think our kids would think we’re weird.’ – Chuck Todd

‘I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.’ – Lauren Oliver

‘These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It’s like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.’ – Jonathan Kellerman

‘Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope – and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.’ – Bob Riley

‘I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem – more profound, I think – is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don’t progress. People interact but don’t make contact.’ – Walter Kirn

‘I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.’ – Alex Campbell

‘We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.’ – Kofi Annan

‘If you don’t like me, life goes on, you know what I mean? But I hope you do like me. Because I think that in addition to being pushy, I’m nice.’ – Christine Quinn

‘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

‘I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘When you’re an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.’ – Darren Criss

‘Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.’ – John Berger

‘I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn’t have any cellulite then.’ – Scarlett Johansson

‘The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.’ – Alfred Marshall

‘I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say ‘yes, women can.” – Dilma Rousseff

‘We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.’ – Dane Cook

‘Every year, thousands of immigrants, asylum seekers and migrants assume great hardships to find safety in America. They choose our country because they see the United States as a land of justice, as a place of safety, and a beacon of hope.’ – Sharice Davids

‘It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.’ – John Clayton

‘All I can hope for is to use my voice for things that I think matter and to stand up for what I believe in.’ – Sarah Jeffery

‘I hope I’m not a tourist attraction – I’m sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.’ – Prince William

‘My writing is often a way of ‘bearing witness’ for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won’t be affected too much by my personal life.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘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

‘A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.’ – Mark Waid

‘If you lose hope in yourself, you’ll make your time hard.’ – Boosie

‘When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I’d write letters and go ‘Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you’re doing something.” – Kristin Kreuk

‘Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.’ – Siri Hustvedt

‘There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you step forward and start speaking about what you see and what you want to change, you can begin living in that hope instead of despair.’ – Sonita Alizadeh

‘If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven – from their sadness to their hope.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘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

‘Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.’ – Harlan Coben

‘I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.’ – Maynard James Keenan

‘There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing – but we all do and call it Hope.’ – E. W. Howe

‘The opening of space to human development and settlement is the most important activity of the human species. From hope to health, from wonder to wealth, the environment, and the very act of living, space is the future.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘I always say I’ll rest when I die – that’s my motto. I just hope I don’t die before the World Cup!’ – Phil Neville

‘You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. The automatic thought was, ‘Why didn’t they raise up? Why didn’t they overpower? They had the numbers.’ But really these people, their hope was broken. Their sense of love was broken. Their appreciation for who they were was broken.’ – Aldis Hodge

‘A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.’ – Stendhal

‘Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.’ – A. R. Rahman

‘For the oppressed peoples and classes, for the peoples and workers who have taken control of their destiny, Marxism is a shining path, a sun of hope and certainty that never sets, a sun that is always at its zenith.’ – Samora Machel

‘I hope I’m a role model for female coaches who are coming through.’ – Emma Hayes

‘Having a plan enabled us to keep our hope alive. Perhaps in a similar fashion, people who are in their own personal crises – a pink slip, a foreclosure – can be reminded that no matter how dire the circumstance, or how little time you have to deal with it, further action is always possible. There’s always a way out of even the tightest spot.’ – Chesley Sullenberger

‘I hope to help people. I hope that I can be the escape that they need when things seem impossible or too tough.’ – Poppy

‘I have no talents. But I do have hope. And wonder. And love. Maybe those are talents?’ – Kate DiCamillo

‘I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.’ – Steve Jobs

‘I hope I am offered good roles and all my releases are hits.’ – Shriya Saran

‘I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.’ – Guido van Rossum

‘If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other’s problems.’ – John Mellencamp

‘I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.’ – Ruta Sepetys

‘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’m thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don’t mess it up.’ – Mark Harmon

‘As you get older, it’s good to open up and acknowledge that everybody has their scary moments, their negative moments. And in order to move on and find comfort and hope, you have to stop running from the darkness and face it. And when you face it, it’s not that scary at all, and sometimes it actually turns around and runs away.’ – Dolores O’Riordan

‘I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.’ – Thabo Mbeki

‘Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘Now we’re here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one’s going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We’ll see what happens.’ – Dana Carvey

‘In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future – or a brighter present.’ – Debbie Macomber

‘One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.’ – Herbie Hancock

‘I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the morrow a dreadful death, which will, I hope, purge away my sins, find no heresy in myself, and accept with all my heart any truth whatsoever that is worthy of belief.’ – Jan Hus

‘One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.’ – Jim Carrey

‘To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.’ – Erich Fromm

‘I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.’ – John Wesley

‘What the underdog socialist has forgotten is that the story of the left ought to be a narrative of hope and progress.’ – Rutger Bregman

‘I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.’ – Angela Duckworth

‘I would love to sing with Drake, but this is not a reality. I hope it becomes one!’ – Anitta

‘I’ve been grinding a really long time, and I’ve been broke for a lot of years. I may not have looked like it because, if you’re fly, you don’t need a dollar – you just need charisma. But I was riding hope as currency for a very long time. I feel like now, more than ever, I’m in my purpose, and comedy is the foundation of that.’ – Amanda Seales

‘Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.’ – Mick Jagger

‘Positive energy is meant to give people confidence and hope, encourage people to love their country, society and life, as well as to pursue nice things. Everything we do is ultimately for the sake of spreading positive energy.’ – Lu Wei

‘I have a lot of hope for the Constituent Assembly.’ – Evo Morales

‘The lockdown has taught people how to make do with what they have and how to consume responsibly. For the sake of our environment and our very own holistic wellness, I hope this wellness trend of sustainability continues to grow and spread.’ – Pooja Bedi

‘For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.’ – LeBron James

‘For a film maker, an Oscar is like a Nobel Prize, you know. So I am very happy… delighted. There is nothing more after this. I cannot hope to get anything more prestigious.’ – Satyajit Ray

‘I was getting in my own way. I would quit jobs and step out on hope and faith, and pray to God that I would book something that would allow me to just continue to act.’ – Aja Naomi King

‘You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.’ – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

‘There’s no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I’d sit down and doze off.’ – Robert Smith

‘Many of the young people living in inner-city America don’t see themselves – I mean, they even talk about things like death and dying. And there’s a tremendous loss of hope. And of all the things to lose, I think nothing is worse or more difficult to overcome than the loss of hope.’ – Danny K. Davis

‘Today’s students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘Beginning players are predictable and rarely bluff. They tend to focus only on their own hand and simply hope to catch the one card they need to improve.’ – Daniel Negreanu

‘I hope I’m wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy – worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.’ – Madeleine Albright

‘Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.’ – Michael Palin

‘I did nothing to deserve God’s love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God’s family.’ – Steven Curtis Chapman

‘We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.’ – Nobuo Uematsu

‘I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.’ – Brian Greene

‘I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.’ – Franz Boas

‘Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble… to give way to hope, fear and greed.’ – Benjamin Graham

‘Theater isn’t there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a potential for redemption. At the core, that’s what matters in the theater I’m attracted to. Do we dare to hope? Do we allow ourselves to hope?’ – Joe Mantello

‘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

‘Voters go into the ballot box with big ideas in their mind: leadership, change, experience, hope.’ – Kellyanne Conway

‘I think of ‘Mommy’ as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it’s not necessary.’ – Xavier Dolan

‘Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.’ – Alfred Nobel

‘I remember being young in the 1960s… we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.’ – Bernardo Bertolucci

‘Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.’ – Gustav Heinemann

‘I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.’ – Kesha

‘We can live with lots of things, but we can’t live without imagination, we can’t live without hope.’ – Ariel Dorfman

‘In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you’re not supposed to be sexual, you don’t plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.’ – Katha Pollitt

‘Hope and fear cannot alter the season.’ – Chogyam Trungpa

‘Faith is the substance of hope – of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person – that is faith.’ – Duane Chapman

‘One of the things that really drives me as an actor is to be able to to provide some kind of positive resonance with people, and every project, I hope someone takes something positive from it.’ – Nicholas Galitzine

‘I don’t know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, ‘I hope you bomb Assad.’ Certainly plenty have said, ‘No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.” – Nancy Pelosi

‘For my family, belief in God and in the resurrection of Jesus Christ brings such hope and promise to our lives. It strengthens our family and our marriage as we focus on Christ as our example of pure love, compassion and tolerance towards others. This positive message is one that helps us become better people each day.’ – Mercedes Schlapp

‘When I view the world, I don’t think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.’ – Jeff Koons

‘We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.’ – Carl Levin

‘I would hope that young girls could relate to me and see that the lives of people on the internet are not as perfect as they seem.’ – Emma Chamberlain

‘I’m a big fan of Courtney Love. I love Hole and I love her acting and I love her attitude. I just hope I never meet her in a dark alley.’ – Jeff Ross

‘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

‘I am thankful to all my fans and supporters out there for the overwhelming love and support. I just hope I continue to make music that is loved by everyone.’ – Amit Trivedi

‘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

‘The media has for us a fundamental priority because it is a weapon for the ideological struggle and a weapon to express to the people the hope that we all have.’ – Hugo Chavez

‘I think it’s impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.’ – Billie Jean King

‘I hope I’m an individual. I suppose an eccentric is a super individual.’ – Margaret Rutherford

‘The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it’s being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.’ – Naftali Bennett

‘As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, ‘I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.” – Duke of Wellington

‘The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient’s hopes are the physician’s secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.’ – Norman Cousins

‘Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It’s the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop.’ – Steve Yzerman

‘I don’t believe in hope. I believe in action, if I’m an apostle of anything: There are always going to be complications, but to a large degree, everything is in your hands.’ – Kerry James Marshall

‘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

‘If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music. I’m not sure if every song will be ‘Take Me to Church,’ but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.’ – Hozier

‘My book ‘Trust Your Heart’, which is the story of my life, will be followed by ‘Singing Lessons’, a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.’ – Judy Collins

‘Don’t get me wrong: I’ve worked, over the course of 14 years, with certain actors that are really just not nice as people, so you don’t really care what happens to their show. But someone like Rachael Harris, you hope that woman wins an Emmy.’ – Rick Hoffman

‘I hope everyone can appreciate the wonderful aspects of metal music.’ – Moa Kikuchi

‘I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.’ – Jason Wu

‘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

‘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

‘I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.’ – Walt Disney

‘You go see a great production of ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ where those kids are full of life and love, you hope and forget.’ – Leslie Odom, Jr.

‘Tim Burton… as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you’ll work with him.’ – Casper Van Dien

‘The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.’ – Steven Cojocaru

‘I think, for women in particular, it’s kind of like you’re expected to get married, have a child, and then you get to be a person. But you don’t need someone else – be it a spouse or child – to complete or validate your existence. Being human is enough and should be enough, and I hope that we all come to a point where we can accept that.’ – Ayobami Adebayo

‘I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.’ – J. B. Priestley

‘It was cool to play an African princess who’s the smartest in the whole world. That never happens. So I hope all the young girls can feel smart, too.’ – Letitia Wright

‘My father thought of America as the last best hope for humanity. He believed we had a historical mission to be a paragon to the rest of the world, to be about what human beings can accomplish if they work together and maintain their focus.’ – Robert Kennedy, Jr.

‘Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life through politics, as this would not only increase participation of women in public life but also have a salutary effect for the amelioration of women’s status in India.’ – Preneet Kaur

‘Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.’ – Desmond Tutu

‘I do hope that ‘Interstellar’ and this kind of science in film will catch the public fancy and help to reignite an interest in science – and a respect for the power of science in dealing with the problems that society has to deal with.’ – Kip Thorne

‘Rain – his power and charisma onstage is impressive, and I hope to have that one day.’ – Jeongyeon

‘We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.’ – Emil Cioran

‘I hope I don’t give music a bad name.’ – Tiny Tim

‘I’m a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people’s decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they’re aware, that they’re living a conscious lifestyle.’ – Abbie Cornish

‘The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.’ – Jenny Holzer

‘I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.’ – Maria Bamford

‘I do think children come in wired a certain way. Why else would I be filled with hope and optimism? You just could not keep me down for very long. You can call it grace or a gift from God, but I do think I came in with it.’ – Florence Henderson

‘I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.’ – Robert Capa

‘My parents were South Korean immigrants who came to America in the early 80s for the hope of a better life for their children.’ – Jonny Kim

‘Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.’ – Jean Anouilh

‘I’m a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that’s been with us a long time – and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.’ – John Green

‘I hope people learn the power of vulnerability through my songs. I think vulnerability can save the world. Empathy helps people connect with each other.’ – Mary Lambert

‘I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.’ – Janet Jackson

‘Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity.’ – Carrie Brownstein

‘One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.’ – Yoko Ono

‘You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn’t have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.’ – Maria Sharapova

‘Every time I go out to perform, believe me. You never lose that fear of, ‘I hope I do it right. I hope I don’t fall flat on my face. I hope this will be good for them.” – Julie Andrews

‘People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things – to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.’ – Miley Cyrus

‘If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.’ – Meir Kahane

‘If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.’ – Joseph Addison

‘What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade it.’ – Ellen Ullman

‘People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.’ – David Chalmers

”Selma’ is a story about voice – the voice of a great leader; the voice of a community that triumphs despite turmoil; and the voice of a nation striving to grow into a better society. I hope the film reminds us that all voices are valuable and worthy of being heard.’ – Ava DuVernay

‘I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there’s a piece, there’s some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what’s coming next, and the variety.’ – Lauren Graham

‘I never considered myself a writer. I’m a teacher. In a way, I feel kind of… kind of guilty for all the people who are writers who hope to be on the best-seller list someday, who live for that and don’t get it, and it came to me as a kind of free gift, like God coming to Abraham and announcing, ‘I’ve chosen you!” – Allan Bloom

‘The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.’ – Bernard Williams

‘The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.’ – Bill Frist

‘I’ve become more and more comfortable with occasionally dressing sexier, but I still hope to express a ‘cool’ type of sensuality.’ – Liu Wen

‘He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.’ – Albert Camus

‘Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it’s not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.’ – Lando Norris

‘Meeting with people is awesome in every sense of the word. It can inspire you with glee. It can inspire you with happiness. It can inspire you with sadness and melancholy, but also hope.’ – Emma Gonzalez

‘I don’t want to get married for the sake of getting married. My hope is that I have a partner with whom I can continue to take on the world.’ – Amanda Knox

‘I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that through my example, such as my role on ‘The West Wing,’ I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything… except hear.’ – Marlee Matlin

‘I hope that basketball gains momentum and kids understand that you can actually make a living from it. Not just the N.B.A. You can get a scholarship, a free degree – like, no student loan you have to pay off. That’s huge in life. Once they realize that in New Zealand, I hope they get inspired.’ – Steven Adams

‘I choose optimism. I hope to be a catalyst not only by providing financial resources but also by fostering a sense of possibility: encouraging top experts to collaborate across disciplines, challenge conventional thinking, and figure out ways to overcome some of the world’s hardest problems.’ – Paul Allen

‘I think Edward Sharpe’s music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope and community are uncool and not part of the mainstream culture.’ – Alex Ebert

‘I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘My characters hope for better lives.’ – Octavia E. Butler

‘I hope to inspire others to be confident in their own skin and to love themselves with makeup or without.’ – James Charles

‘Remember that, ultimately, it is your differences that make you who you are and distinguish you from the bland and humdrum, and without your differences you can never hope to truly be special.’ – A. J. Odudu

‘Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.’ – Samuel Smiles

‘Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.’ – William Shakespeare

‘I hope when I’m 80 that I get to Heaven and God doesn’t recognise me.’ – Pete Burns

‘To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.’ – Wendell Berry

‘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

‘Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn’t be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.’ – Corazon Aquino

‘Fear and hope are alike underneath.’ – Richard Ford

‘I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself… I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.’ – David Blaine

‘You’ve gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you’ve gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.’ – King Tuff

‘If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.’ – Miguel de Unamuno

‘I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.’ – David Henry Hwang

‘With acceptance comes opportunities. And with opportunities come numbers and, most importantly, hope.’ – Julie Foudy

‘I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn’t grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it’s worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.’ – Regina Brett

‘I think it just takes one little snowflake to start a snowball to go down the hill. My contribution and, say, Kendrick Lamar’s and some chosen others’ start the snowball. That’s all I can hope for. I don’t know if I’m comfortable being quote-unquote a leader.’ – D’Angelo

‘I hope that people remember me not just as a good businesswoman but as a great friend – and a heck of a lot of fun.’ – Kate Spade

‘I would hope the pages would be blank, and every time you flipped the page, a beautiful picture would form. The universe knows where I’m going, and I’m just gonna let it do what it does.’ – Ahmad Balshe

‘America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.’ – Felix Dennis

‘Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants’ labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.’ – Luis Gutierrez

‘It’s a weird dynamic – I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.’ – Washed Out

‘We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die.’ – Bill Maris

‘Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.’ – Lillian Hellman

‘It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.’ – Abraham Cowley

‘Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.’ – Baruch Spinoza

‘Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.’ – Karl Rahner

‘The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands.’ – Laura Chinchilla

‘I hope the best for anybody in this business. It’s hard enough as it is, and of course you don’t get much respect from anybody, but when you do, you should appreciate it.’ – Robin Zander

‘Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.’ – Alphonsus Liguori

‘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

‘Honestly, with stats and things like that, I try not to think about them. I just find that the more you think about goals and assists – what you need to do and accomplish – the more you tend to fall short. When you hope for something and you want something, it comes to you.’ – Alex Morgan

‘The United States is the world’s best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.’ – Henry Cabot Lodge

‘Forgiveness provides hope, joy, and a bright future that nothing else can.’ – Paul J. Meyer

‘The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It’s not change, and it’s not hope.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.’ – Ayn Rand

‘That’s what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.’ – Afeni Shakur

‘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 of ill gain is the beginning of loss.’ – Democritus

‘I’m proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed.’ – Mario Lopez

‘To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!’ – Edmund Waller

‘Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.’ – Bernard Berenson

‘Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it’s with the hope of winning something more.’ – Derek Kilmer

‘When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.’ – John Dryden

‘The great hope of society is in individual character.’ – William Ellery Channing

‘Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.’ – Maximillian Degenerez

‘All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?’ – Immanuel Kant

‘I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.’ – George Steiner

‘Where I came from, there’s not a reason to have a lot of hope. So much trouble, everywhere. But every now and then, someone makes it out and makes it big, and that person has an impact on a lot of other people.’ – Gervonta Davis

‘We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.’ – Bill Vaughan

‘We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is ‘no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.’ We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.’ – John F. Kelly

‘Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.’ – William Samuel Johnson

‘Don’t let anyone tell you what you cannot do. My whole life I had people tell me ‘you’ll never do that’ or ‘you’ll never be that.’ Things people said I’d never be able to do, I’m doing. I try and stress that to kids. A lot of inner-city kids have an overwhelming sense of hopelessness. I have to explain that there is hope.’ – Montel Vontavious Porter

‘I hope to continue to inspire our nation’s youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.’ – Ellen Ochoa

‘My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.’ – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

‘I’m actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it’s a depressing word. I don’t want to hope – I want to know. Like I don’t hope there’s a God, I know there’s a God.’ – Kelly Clarkson

‘Where there’s life, there’s hope.’ – Terence

‘When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology… Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.’ – Alfonso Cuaron

‘I made the argument that every growing demographic in this country – nonwhite voters, younger people – is trending Democratic. It’s a ticking time bomb for the GOP. That’s why I felt safe in saying that ‘Republicans have no hope of making serious inroads into Democratic advantages in 2010 or likely 2012 or 2014 and so on.” – James Carville

‘School is at once a place of hope, but it’s also a laboratory that exposes our differences.’ – Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

‘Weddings happen once. That’s the point. They’re a bluster of confetti and hope all wrapped up in sticky wedding cake and four-year-old girls in big dresses with massive bows.’ – Claudia Winkleman

‘On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a ‘Restoring Honor’ revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.’ – James Wolcott

‘I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.’ – Eavan Boland

‘When readers close the covers on ‘Running the Rift,’ I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.’ – Naomi Benaron

‘You want to see everybody make their kicks, and you hope the best for everybody. But that’s just the duality of this league if you’re a place-kicker. That’s the duality of the position. If you play long enough, you’re going to miss one or two.’ – Justin Tucker

‘My hope, my real hope, is that whatever you hold in your heart, whatever you truly believe, and you’ve put your faith in, that that’s what ‘s waiting for you. I think that’d be wonderful. You know what I mean? I think that would be the culmination of the life of the devout, or the believer.’ – Joe Carnahan

‘A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.’ – Georges Bernanos

‘I suppose if I’d got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.’ – A. N. Wilson

‘We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest 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!’ – Sam Houston

‘Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you’re really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That’s the way I’ve always lived my life.’ – Shania Twain

‘In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.’ – Subcomandante Marcos

‘I hope we can figure out the reforms, educate and really retrain our police officers. Getting people to understand that just because I grew up a different way and my lifestyle’s different, doesn’t mean that you need to be afraid of me.’ – Aljamain Sterling

‘I hope peace is a part of everyday life.’ – Moon Jae-in

‘I am not drawn to the fairytale kind of love. I am drawn to the real-life experiences between a woman and a man. I try to sing about the way it is, but yet at the same time, what you can hope for between a couple.’ – Kip Moore

‘Peace in this life is based upon faith and testimony. We can all find hope from our personal prayers and gain comfort from the scriptures. Priesthood blessings lift us and sustain us. Hope also comes from direct personal revelation, to which we are entitled if we are worthy.’ – James E. Faust

‘I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you’re really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you’re saying: ‘Hope I don’t get chased today.’ ‘Be nice to people in sneakers.” – Demetri Martin

‘It seems as if life and hope must cease together.’ – Anne Bronte

‘There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.’ – Melissa Etheridge

‘Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.’ – Emanuel Cleaver

‘I’m always happy, in every game, every win I keep writing my history, and I hope to do even more from now on.’ – Neymar

‘Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death and ‘I hope horrible things don’t happen to my family,’ but they do. And I think people laugh at them as this great release.’ – Anthony Jeselnik

‘With ‘Stardust’, I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.’ – Neil Gaiman

‘One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘Anyone can exceed expectations in one way or another and I hope to prove that when I race alongside, not just able-bodied drivers, but the best Touring Car drivers in the UK.’ – Nicolas Hamilton

‘There are more crime films about the corruption of power because our society has similar problems. It would be great for me as an actor to work on an ‘Inside Men’ sequel, but I hope it never gets made. Because it would mean the corruption is still there.’ – Lee Byung-hun

‘I would like to be in the playoffs. I would hope that there is some opportunity to go and play in the playoffs. Those are the best games, the most fun for sure, and you have a chance to win.’ – Jarome Iginla

‘Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.’ – Brian Eno

‘I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.’ – Evan Rachel Wood

‘It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.’ – Ursula K. Le Guin

‘My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.’ – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

‘Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe in progressive politics and the beneficial role of government, rather than a detriment.’ – David Blunkett

‘I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me which makes me blush or lower my forehead; and I hope that God will be merciful enough with me, to prevent me from committing one of those faults which would involve my family.’ – Jose Rizal

‘If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.’ – Jacques Yves Cousteau

‘There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.’ – Wendelin Van Draanen

‘But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.’ – George Eliot

‘I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it’s all said and done, it’s all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that’s one of hope.’ – Jon Favreau

‘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

‘Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.’ – George A. Smith

‘The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.’ – Ogden Nash

‘By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.’ – Michel Onfray

‘It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.’ – Lemmy

‘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

‘I put ‘hope’ in my name to be a hopeful existence in the group.’ – J-Hope

‘To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.’ – Pearl S. Buck

‘Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all – reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.’ – Mitt Romney

‘I am generally writing about things happening in my own life, in what I hope is a very relatable way.’ – Taylor Tomlinson

‘It takes a government to set up public-private partnerships and develop university programmes. I think this is the best path for India, given the rapid progress the country has already made and given the rapid progress we all hope India will continue to make.’ – Andrew Ng

‘Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.’ – George Santayana

‘Hope will be found by understanding that diversity is the essence of the American Dream and why we need each other to fulfill it.’ – Ilhan Omar

‘I’m pretty normal. That’s why I feel like I hope most teenagers can relate.’ – Lil Yachty

‘No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.’ – Enda Kenny

‘If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘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

‘Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.’ – Becky Hammon

‘For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you’re just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn’t make that much of a difference really.’ – Rosamund Pike

‘I’m moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn’t clear. If people think you’re leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they’re coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I’m just moving on right now.’ – Regis Philbin

‘Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.’ – Elbert Hubbard

‘I actually don’t hope for a legacy. I think that it impedes your ability to make the hard decisions if you sit around saying, ‘How will this affect my legacy?” – David Stern

‘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

‘For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.’ – Claude Monet

‘I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.’ – Arthur Miller

‘I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.’ – Brandi Carlile

‘Yesterday I was a dog. Today I’m a dog. Tomorrow I’ll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There’s so little hope for advancement.’ – Charles M. Schulz

‘I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.’ – Beverly Cleary

‘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

‘Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn’t, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.’ – Ivo Andric

‘The one thing I do know is that I’m the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.’ – Taylor Hawkins

‘Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let’s hope they make out as well as I did.’ – Bobby Darin

‘I hope that my uniquely American journey can help pave the way for others, especially women, to step into their own immense power.’ – Mazie Hirono

‘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

‘I hope things go phenomenally well for Spain and for Luis Enrique. I’m a fervent supporter of the national team.’ – Julen Lopetegui

‘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.’ – Pope Benedict XVI

‘History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.” – Seamus Heaney

‘I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.’ – Billy Graham

‘There’s always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.’ – Herman Melville

‘She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.’ – Christina Rossetti

‘Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘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

‘I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.’ – Bob Uecker

‘And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.’ – John Lennon

‘It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.’ – Walter Benjamin

‘I like to be sparkly! It makes me happy. I love to stand out and embrace my uniqueness, and I am very lucky I get to incorporate that into my gear. I hope the sparkle and glitter that I spread makes other people happy, too.’ – Alexa Bliss

‘Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.’ – Xi Jinping

‘In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young.’ – Samuel Ullman

‘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

‘It’s amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It’s the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.’ – J. D. Vance

‘I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn’t purpose; it’s a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree.’ – Nick Vujicic

‘It’s like a cosmic joke that people dream to perform in front of a huge crowd. But it is a welcomed challenge. I hope I always have that positive apprehension.’ – Julien Baker

‘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

‘Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.’ – Alexander Pope

‘The simplistic solutions of Deepak Chopra cannot stand against the lofty and deep teachings of Jesus Christ. Only in His answers will we find the ultimate hope for the human heart.’ – Ravi Zacharias

‘Peace is what enables development and is critical in providing opportunities to young people. Efforts to preserve peace are absolutely vital in bringing prosperity and hope for the future.’ – Kim Yuna

‘Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘I’m like everyone, I would hope for a fair and equal society and making great strides to create opportunities for women in the men’s game.’ – Emma Hayes

‘Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came, and God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.’ – Gene Cernan

‘In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.’ – Anne Lamott

‘Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.’ – Algernon Charles Swinburne

‘Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘I asked long ago,’What must I do to be saved?’ The Scripture answered, ‘Keep the commandments, believe, hope, love.’ I was early warned against laying, as the Papists do, too much stress on outward works, or on a faith without works, which as it does not include, so it will never lead to true hope or charity.’ – John Wesley

‘Satan tries to counterfeit the work of God, and by doing this, he may deceive many. To make us lose hope, feel miserable like himself, and believe that we are beyond forgiveness, Satan might even misuse words from the scriptures that emphasize the justice of God in order to imply that there is no mercy.’ – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

‘Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.’ – Antonio Porchia

‘Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.’ – Pearl S. Buck

‘Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.’ – Gore Vidal

‘While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.’ – Ovid

‘Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘I tell you what, if you live in Spokane, I hope you wake up every day and you’re thankful for the weather, for the trees, for the colors, for the greenery, for cars that stop when you’re running and you go to cross the road and they stop. I love it.’ – Anne McClain

‘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

‘I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.’ – Yves Saint Laurent

‘I hope 2010 is a happy adventurous journey for me.’ – Shriya Saran

‘There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘Keep hope alive!’ – Jesse Jackson

‘When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.’ – John Adams

‘I do write a lot of children’s songs, and I’m going to do a children’s television show, which also means I’ll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.’ – Dolly Parton

‘That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‘Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.’ – Rihanna

‘Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.’ – Bruce Barton

‘When I started writing ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid,’ I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America.’ – Jeff Kinney

‘I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.’ – Steve Yzerman

‘You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even that, terrible as it is, than be as I am without hope of any children.’ – Marie Antoinette

‘If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.’ – Maya Angelou

‘My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.’ – Dalai Lama

‘I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.’ – Frank Ocean

‘Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‘Is there any hope for the future?’ My answer is the same, ‘Yes, through Jesus Christ.” – Billy Graham

‘My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.’ – Terence

‘To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘Hope is in the name of God, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope is when you compare your suffering to the infinite, immeasurable love and grace of God.’ – Nick Vujicic

‘I hope that through my example, such as my role on ‘The West Wing,’ I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything… except hear.’ – Marlee Matlin

‘In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.’ – Pearl S. Buck

‘Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.