Top 121 Hopeful Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Hopeful Quotes from famous people such as John Lewis, Tracy Chapman, Nancy Lublin, Russell Wilson, Meena Harris, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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I am very, very hopeful about the American South – I believe that we will lead America to what Dr. King called ‘the beloved community.’
John Lewis
I’m a hopeful cynic.
Tracy Chapman
Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
Nancy Lublin
I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great.
Russell Wilson
If you’re not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.
John Lewis
My work is myself. That’s what makes me feel like I have purpose. It makes me happy and inspired and hopeful – as hard as it may be sometimes.
Meena Harris
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
‘ Torn’ is hopeful. It’s a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life and in your walk with God.
Jud Wilhite
Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
Martha Beck
I write a lot more when I’m happy, because you’re hopeful, you’re motivated.
Andrew Bird
An Indian Muslim can aspire to become a Shah Rukh Khan, can aspire to become an Irfan Pathan or even the President of India. And that makes the Muslim here far more hopeful and far less in despair than in any other part of the world.
Shabana Azmi
I’m hopeful that commercial space exploration will takeoff. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and I think that’s only going to happen in the commercial sector – if there are large profits to be made.
Alan Stern
I have a fundamentally hopeful view about people, and that might merely be a reflection of the fact that I’ve lived an incredibly privileged life in a very wealthy nation without a lot of the struggles that most of the world has to face.
Greta Gerwig
All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job.
Debby Ryan
I’m a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.
Leymah Gbowee
For a Tamil debut, I wanted to make sure the script is the right one. We are hopeful ‘Bramhotsavam’ will be that film.
Mahesh Babu
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I’d faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep believing in myself. But something wouldn’t let me – inside – I had this voice that was relentlessly hopeful, and honestly, I just loved performing and writing too much to ever really quit.
Rachel Platten
You cannot artificially curb gold imports beyond a point. But I am hopeful it will happen because the rupee depreciation should by itself lead to a large growth in exports and some compression of imports.
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
I love baseball. As a teenager, I was a contrarian and picked the underdog instead of just rooting for the Yankees. It’s a hard team to root for, but there’s something that always keeps me hopeful.
Julia Stiles
Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well.
Lynette Fromme
Rey’s parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she’s late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there’s a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that’s lovely.
Daisy Ridley
I’ve written so many songs that are hopeful – songs that are, like, about an old man that gives all his possessions away because he wants to help people. I wrote ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ just to tell a different type of story.
Mark Foster
From his roots as a slave, the American Negro – sometimes sorrowing, sometimes jubilant but always hopeful – has touched, illuminated, and influenced the most remote preserves of world civilisation. I and my dance theater celebrate this trembling beauty.
Alvin Ailey
The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
Amelia Barr
To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.
Rebecca Solnit
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.
Lana Del Rey
I am hopeful that Nalvaravu’ will be an important movie in my career.
Richa Pallod
I am ever hopeful that there are generations of young Chinese people who are really thinking about the future and what kind of society they want.
Claire Fox
I had to be very unrealistic about my situation. If I was so realistic I would never have made it this far. So, you just sometimes have to be hopeful for no reason.
Park Yeon-mi
Fulfilling the vision of the Irvine Ranch master plan has been a lifetime dedication and lifetime passion, and I am hopeful the heritage of our Irvine stewardship will live on in many new ways.
Donald Bren
I feel like I am the most hopeful person you could poss

I feel like I am the most hopeful person you could possibly meet.
Tig Notaro
I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.
Richard Paul Evans
The Labour party is not perfect but I have seen in my own life how it is the greatest vehicle for positive hopeful social change.
Jess Phillips
Maybe you’re not perfect, but you’re willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That’s a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there’s something incredibly hopeful about that.
Brie Larson
Everything is possible; we just need to be hopeful and think of the world from a human perspective. The world is so small compared to the universe, so we shouldn’t fight for petty things.
Manal al-Sharif
I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.
Joel Osteen
I’m hopeful for a world with more love, acceptance, and compassion for others.
Lily Aldridge
America’s greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.
John McCain
I know we disagree with Mr. Trump on this area. I’m hopeful that we can convince him that making our tax code more pro-growth will make America stronger, but to do that, it’s not enough to simply buy American: we need to sell American all throughout the world.
Kevin Brady
I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It’s like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.
Jain
The ’50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.
Chris Isaak
I am hopeful for the Newcastle fans, for the club, for everybody that I will be able to step aside and we will be able to get an owner in that will please everybody.
Mike Ashley
We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
Nan Hayworth
Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
Patricia Arquette
We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.
Giorgio Napolitano
It’s a good note for any young hopeful in this business to take: study up and make sure you are informed at all times because knowing how to anticipate someone’s subtle nuances in a performance will only elevate your own art!
Tisha Campbell-Martin
By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.
Jack Youngblood
I am hopeful about our future and sure that, despite our challenges, engaging our government remains essential in the journey toward perfecting our union.
Valerie Jarrett
I’m not always optimistic, but I am hopeful.
Greg Boyle
As hopeful as I am, there are some times in my life when I get to low points. Luckily, I still have music to get me through things.
Benji Madden
I think I’m far too hopeful and trusting. That’s something I got from my mum.
Dave Eggers
I have a request to make to Pawan Kalyan sir on behalf of all his fans. He will definitely succeed whichever field he chooses. But we fans can’t bear it if he says he won’t do films anymore. We will always be hopeful that he will do a film someday.
Nithiin
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
John Green
I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can’t.
Anne Enright
So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense.
Studs Terkel
I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to… really not. I’m not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.
Selma Blair
As far as viewpoints, I think I’m more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you’re young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
Eddie Vedder
I would say that the West is very young, it’s very corrupt. We’re not very wise. And I think we’re hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.
Richard Gere