99 Hopeful Quotes

1.  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
2. I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing. Pope John Paul II
3. 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
4. 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
5. The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors. William Hazlitt
6. 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
7. What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope? Immanuel Kant
8. Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. Ambrose Bierce
9. There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope. Gerard Way
10. Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. Desmond Tutu
11. We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. Dane Cook
12. I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together. Jarvis Cocker
13. The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. Will Durant
14. I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story. Elvis Presley
15. 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
16. Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope. Reinhold Niebuhr
17. There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. Bernard Williams
18. Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
19. 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
20. I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears. Thomas S. Monson
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most. Curt Schilling
25. 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
26. You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change. Sharron Angle
27. I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. Howard Nemerov
28. My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love. Alveda King
29. I'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic. Frank Lampard
30. It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. Thomas Carlyle
31. 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
32. Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Marcus Garvey
33. Hope is patience with the lamp lit. Tertullian
34. I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland. Michael D. Higgins
35. 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
36. 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
37. A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal
38. I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology. Dan Lipinski
39. Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest. Sarah Ban Breathnach
40. But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone. Wallace Shawn
41. Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows. Frances Rodman
42. It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon. Marat Safin
43. There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run. Howard Dean
44. Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that. Marco Rubio
45. Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. Manuel Puig
46. 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
47. For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts. Henry Norris Russell
48. 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
49. One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes. Gustave Flaubert
50. If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it. Doug Coupland
51. You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone. Tom Waits
52. 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
53. I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player. Jarvis Cocker
54. 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
55. Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. Thornton Wilder
56. 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
57. I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son. Charlize Theron
58. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Abraham Lincoln
59. Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit. Jerry Costello
60. Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. Dean Koontz
61. 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.
62. Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug. Isabelle Huppert
63. There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope. Michael Ian Black
64. House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust. John Boehner
65. Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check. Baltasar Gracian
66. Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. Arnold H. Glasow
67. We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so." Studs Terkel
68. I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession. Bette Midler
69. 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. Schuller
70. 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
71. Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. Arthur Miller
72. Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. Vincent McNabb
73. I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment. Paul Tillich
74. 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
75. Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy. Michelle Pfeiffer
76. No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that. Ed Koch
77. Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. Baltasar Gracian
78. To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?' Anna Kendrick
79. The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny. Jim DeMint
80. I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost. Ellen Page
81. To me, what I love about the draft is first, you see the young men who are realizing their dreams that they've worked so hard for. That's a pretty cool thing. You saw the emotion from some of these guys the other day. And then, the second thing is this total sense of hope and optimism. And, I think that's great for everybody. Roger Goodell
82. Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
83. All hope abandon, ye who enter here! Dante Alighieri
84. 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
85. Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors. Ken Hill
86. When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. W. C. Fields
87. 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
88. Beware how you take away hope from another human being. Oliver Wendell Holmes
89. 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
90. 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
91. 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
92. We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope. Epictetus
93. We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better. Kofi Annan
94. Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. Desmond Tutu
95. Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. Baruch Spinoza
96. Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. Elie Wiesel
97. 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
98. 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
99. Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you. Paul Ryan