hope
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘hope’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
-
“Children are God’s Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.” -James Russell Lowell
-
“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
-
“I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.” -Pope John Paul II
-
“I’m not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It’s not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.” -Ben Affleck
-
“You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.” -Fran Lebowitz
-
“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
-
“Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both.” -Tryon Edwards
-
“The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.” -James Madison
-
“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
-
“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
-
-
“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.” -Emily Dickinson
-
“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
-
“In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
-
“Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I’m on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.” -Jenny McCarthy
-
“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
-
“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
-
“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 charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.” -John Buchan
-
“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
-
“If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that’s much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.” -Chuck Palahniuk
-
“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
-
“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
-
“Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.” -John Ruskin
-
“Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.” -Mignon McLaughlin
-
“Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.” -P. J. O’Rourke
-
“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.” -Epictetus
-
“Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.” -Thomas Carlyle
-
“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
-
“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
-
“Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.” -Ambrose Bierce
-
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.” -George Eliot
-
“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
-
“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
-
“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.” -Bertrand Russell
-
“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
-
“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.” -Joseph Conrad
-
“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
-
“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
-
“Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.” -Victor Hugo
-
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.” -Orison Swett Marden
-
“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
-
-
“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 know he can’t.” -Rodney Dangerfield
-
“Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.” -Gore Vidal
-
“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
-
“Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.” -Henry Miller
-
“The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
-
“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.” -Nikos Kazantzakis
-
“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 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
-
“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
-
“Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-
“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
-
“I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.” -Joel Osteen
-
“Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.” -Mitt Romney
-
“The worst thing that can happen in a democracy – as well as in an individual’s life – is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.” -Hillary Clinton
-
“And I hope that five years and 10 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
-
“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
-
“I’ve seen the ticket, and I still can’t believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don’t hit the floor.” -Judy Garland
-
“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
-
“I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it’s all very upfront. I can’t hide it. I’m also loyal and I hope I’m fun.” -Nicole Kidman
-
“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
-
“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
-
“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
-
“Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.” -Pliny the Elder
-
“God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.” -Billy Graham
-
“War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
-
“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
-
“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…
-
“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” -Brad Henry
-
“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
-
“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.” -Ayn Rand
-
“I’ve tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I’m afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.” -Ernest Hemingway
-
“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
-
“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
-
“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
-
“The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.” -Thomas Hardy
-
“Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.” -Thomas Aquinas
-
“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
-
“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
-
“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.” -John Quincy Adams
-
“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.” -Leonardo da Vinci
-
-
“Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.” -Bill Cosby
-
“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
-
“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” -Walt Disney
-
“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……
-
“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
-
“Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.” -David D. Burns
-
“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
-
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” -Jane Austen
-
“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.” -Albert Camus
-
“Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.” -Edward de Bono
-
“It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.” -Oscar Wilde
-
“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
-
“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
-
“I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.” -John F. Kennedy
-
“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
-
“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
-
“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.” -Vincent McNabb
-
“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
-
“No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.” -George Chakiris
-
“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
-
“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
-
“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.” -Napoleon Hill
-
“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
-
“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 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 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
-
“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
-
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” -Albert Einstein
-
“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
-
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” -Maya Angelou
-
“I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.” -Dalai Lama
-
“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.” -Abraham Lincoln
-
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” -Winston Churchill
-
“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.” -Benjamin Disraeli
-
“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
-
“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
-
“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.” -William Shakespeare
-
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
-
“The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.” -Edward Kennedy
-
-
“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
-
“Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.” -Henri Frederic Amiel
-
“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
-
“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.” -Antonio Porchia
-
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.” -Alexandre Dumas
-
“The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.” -Friedrich Durrenmatt
-
“All hope abandon, ye who enter here!” -Dante Alighieri
-
“How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon
-
“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.
-
“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
-
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” -Helen Keller
-
“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.” -W. C. Fields
-
“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” -George Washington Carver
-
“Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.” -Arnold H. Glasow
-
“Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.” -Mason Cooley
-
“Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.” -Henry Rollins
-
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.” -Francis Bacon
-
“To live without Hope is to Cease to live.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
-
“Beware how you take away hope from another human being.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
-
“Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out.” -Christopher Reeve
-
“It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.” -William Makepeace Thackeray
-
“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.” -Will Durant
-
“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.” -Benjamin Franklin
-
“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
-
“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.” -Aristotle Onassis
-
“Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.” -John Wayne
-
“Hope is tomorrow’s veneer over today’s disappointment.” -Evan Esar
-
“Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
-
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” -Martin Luther
-
“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.” -Chester W. Nimitz
-
“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
-
“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
-
“Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.” -Marcus Garvey
-
“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 in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
-
“Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.” -Mark Twain
-
“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
View More Quotations – By Author.
View More Quotations – By Topic.
Home.