Hope Quotes: Inspiring Light in Times of Darkness
Embracing the Power of Hope
Hope is a beacon of light that shines in the darkest of times, providing solace, strength, and resilience. It is an essential ingredient for navigating through life’s challenges, overcoming adversity, and embracing a brighter future. In this article, we delve into the realm of hope and present a collection of inspiring quotes that uplift the spirit, ignite optimism, and remind us of the power that hope holds in our lives.
Hope is more than just wishful thinking; it is a mindset, a belief in the possibility of positive change and a better tomorrow. It fuels our dreams, motivates us to take action, and empowers us to face obstacles with courage and determination. In times of uncertainty, hope becomes a guiding light that leads us towards a brighter, more hopeful path.
Words of Encouragement: Quotes that Inspire Hope
Throughout history, poets, philosophers, and individuals who have experienced the transformative power of hope have shared their insights and reflections. Their words resonate deeply within us, reminding us that even in the face of adversity, hope has the power to uplift, heal, and guide us towards a brighter future. Below, we present a collection of hope quotes that inspire optimism, renew our faith in the human spirit, and remind us that there is always a glimmer of hope, no matter how dark the circumstances may seem.
My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it’s my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There’s no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
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.
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.
I am pleased that my work has been recognized, and I hope to be a role model.
All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
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.
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn’t happen. That is my only – fear – in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn’t get abused.
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.
I hope to get out before they start football next year.
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there’s always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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.
You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.
You never think about what life’s going to be like five years down the road or 10 – you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don’t. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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.
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.
We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.
So for me, you can’t control the media, you have to work with media to get your message out there and you just hope that there’s enough good honest reporting and people in the media that can get that job done.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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.
The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
I always believe things are going to work out.
The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.
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.
Hope springs eternal, even for hopeless crusades.
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
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.
Though I have seldom done anything to my own satisfaction, I am better satisfied with the translation of the New Testament than I ever expected to be. The language is, I believe, simple, plain, intelligible; and I have endeavored, I hope successfully, to make every sentence a faithful representation of the original.
It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
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.
I am happy that I am back and with a great project like ‘Vicky Donor.’ I have had a hard time in the past with ‘Johnny Mastana’ getting stuck but I hope this film brings positiveness into my life.
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.
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.
Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct – a gift of knowing without reasoning… Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence – it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.
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.
The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.
Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.
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.
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.
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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.
I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago – my job was secure. I didn’t have to promote myself. These days there’s far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won’t be lost.
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.
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.
The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.
As an actor, the best way I can hope to promote greater social understanding is through my work. If I can communicate with people and touch their hearts through ‘Dangal,’ perhaps, eventually, I can help change their minds.
It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
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.
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.
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.
Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
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.
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.
On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!
Hope is the denial of reality.
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.
I hope to have more than one main weapon. I have the Phenomenal Forearm as we’re calling it now, the Calf Crusher – the Styles Clash is still available. I like to have a lot of alternative moves to hit people with, and whatever seems to work is what I’ll go with.
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.
The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it’s for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.
I’d love to be a dad. I hope I’d be great at it. That’s every man’s fear, yet his most important job.
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.
I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.
I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think – It’s Brooke Shields.
I’m so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.
I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I’m not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it’s cool.
Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
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.
Can I just tell you, I think it’s the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don’t really recognize race the way my generation does.
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.
I’ve flown across America, I’ve scaled fences, I’ve stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I’m a hopeless romantic. There’s no hope for me.
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.
Without hope we are lost.
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.
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I’ve done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
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.
I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
In tough times, we all hope for knights in shining armor, or the cavalry, to show up and effect change.
I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.
I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
I do hope to make a moon flight sometime.
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
God, I hope I wear this jersey forever.
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.
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.
Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.
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.
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’
I don’t think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
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.
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.
I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don’t take counsel of your fears.
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.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
I don’t have any faith in the Republican Party. I don’t have any faith in the Democrat Party. The only hope for this nation is God.
If you are ever on stage, and it feels as though the audience is not laughing at the right points or are not quite as engaged as you’d hope, you have to remember there is always somebody who might be falling in love with this world and having an epiphany. I was that person.
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.
I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.
I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
I hope that teachings about inclusion and love win out over what I personally consider to be a handful of scriptures that reflect the moral expectations of the era in which they were recorded.
When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was ‘It will be O.K.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be O.K.?’ The worst word in the English language is ‘hope.’
I hope I die before I get old.
Truly, this is a nation that sees itself as one that instills hope and is really about allowing people to pursue their dreams.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I hope I’m saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
As long as they want me modeling, I’ll be here. But I hope to maybe have a cooking show one day or host a talk show when I’m older and have a developed brand. That would be really fun.
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.
I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there’s a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don’t think it’s my finest work.
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.
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.
Life labeled me, people gave up on me, and thought that there was no hope, but God takes the people who have been cast aside and look like trash. God’s in the recycling business. He recycles that trash and brings forth treasure.
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.
No matter what era we’re in, we need hope.
While there’s life, there’s hope.
I was the guy who was friends with everybody. Yes, I had my core group of friends, but I wasn’t part of a clique that excluded people. I hope they thought I was a nice guy. I tried to be just friendly and outgoing. I was class president. I’m supposed to run my class reunion in 2013.
Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.
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.
Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it.
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.
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.
I hope for peace and sanity – it’s the same thing.
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.
A film is not a vehicle to accuse, or to relay a specific message. If we reduce a film to this, we lose all hope for cinema to ignite a richer conversation.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
The atheist has no hope.
I’m a really fun aunt, so I hope I’m going to be a fun mom! I like to have fun and be silly and not take myself too seriously with the kids, so I hope that will translate when I actually have my own.
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.
Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.
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.
I hope that memory is valued – that we do not lose memory.
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.
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
There’s always hope, and there’s always despair.
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.
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.
I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.
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.
God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
To Live signifies to believe and hope – to lie and to lie to oneself.
What is music anyway? It’s a form of communication, and that’s why I play the kind of music that I think – that I hope – can communicate with people.
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.
I hope that we continue with exploration.
I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.
Hope is a talent like any other.
My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
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.
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
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.
I do hope in Ireland children in schools can experience the richness of chess and it’s positive effects.
I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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.
Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.
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.
What is a superhero? They’re supposed to represent hope, opportunity, and strength for everybody.
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.
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
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.
Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
We hope that the Commonwealth Sports movement is playing a meaningful role in the wider global conversation around tolerance, empowerment, and legal recognition for all.
Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
Fear and hope are alike underneath.
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.
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.
My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.
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.
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
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.
In many ways, leadership is about defining reality and inspiring hope, but if you have these great people around you and they know that what they do is going to be recognized, it can be incredibly powerful.
I hope to die in the saddle seat.
Hopefully I can do well and I hope tennis can get bigger in Japan and Asia. That’s my goal.
I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
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.
Living in hope is a really terrible thing.
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.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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.
Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
I’ve always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope to create with one day is usually disappointing because you put them up on a pedestal, and then you’re like, ‘Wow, that’s not a nice person.’
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope – and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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.
When he’s late for dinner, I know he’s either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it’s the street.
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs – in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
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.’
Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
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.
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.
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Stephen King is one of my all-time heroes, so, of course, the pressure never lets up. Every second, you hope he’ll like it. I remember getting a call from him after he read my script for ‘Hearts in Atlantis.’ He liked it. Talk about relief.
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.
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character’s complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism – that’s what I was saying about the difference between the character’s message and the film’s message.
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.
Marriage is the death of hope.
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
‘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.
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
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.
I just hope that when black people look at me, they don’t see someone superhuman. They see themselves.
I hope to spend more time with my family.
We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.
We live in America where each and every person has the equal opportunity to take their iPhone or a smartphone and create something and put it online and have the equal ability to blow up and be successful. It’s a tool I hope we inspire tons of people to pick up and go after their dreams.
Chuseok is coming soon, and I hope you spend a good time with your family. You can spend Chuseok with ‘Moonlight Drawn by Clouds’ as well.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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.
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.
I think that’s the one thing we all hope for in this life is we leave something of a legacy, that’s meaningful to someone else, when we leave here.
Don’t hope someone gives you an opportunity: create one for yourself.
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.
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.
We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
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.
Peace is necessary. For justice, it is necessary. For hope, it is necessary, for our future.
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.
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.
We all have the same destiny. The difference is opening ourselves up to possibilities to joy, hope, and happiness along the way. Give yourself and others a chance to take advantage of what’s out there and available.
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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.
We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics – we are doing ideas. This is about hope.
Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.
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.
The great hope of society is in individual character.
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
I hope to always keep stretching myself and not stay in one box or lane.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
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.
What I do know is that with a celebrity’s death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death – it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the ‘story.’
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.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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.
I hope I’m building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles but being willing to work for them. I think when you do that and you work really hard, people take notice.
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.
When it’s said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it’s a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.
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.
I’ve never liked to judge other people in the hope that they won’t judge me.
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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.
Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.
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.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
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.
I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that’s success.
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
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.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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.
When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
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.’
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.
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.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.
Remember me when you do pray, that hope doth lead from day to day.
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.
I’m always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not otherwise read – I enjoy the surprise myself when others do this to me.
I hope all you young girls see yourself up there… we were just like you.
Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake.
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
I was close to getting married a long time ago. But it didn’t happen, and since then it has not been happening. It is jinxed, and I am very happy. I hope this jinx continues.
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.
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.
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.
Well, bitcoin is a currency. Bitcoin has no underlying rate of return. You know, bonds have an interest coupon. Stocks have earnings and dividends. Gold has nothing, and bitcoin has nothing. There is nothing to support the bitcoin except the hope that you will sell it to somebody for more than you paid for it.
Ultimately, we must either abandon our reliance on stop and search or abandon any hope for a criminal justice system grounded in equality, impartiality and fairness.
I hope that others can turn their negative thoughts into positive thoughts and improve their own lives.
I hope my own children never have to fight a war.
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
A gay person in office can set a tone, can command respect not only from the larger community but from the young people in our own community who need both examples and hope.
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.
I’ll let others worry about what is trendy. When I was a player I wasn’t a fashion item, I was someone who got the job done. I hope I’m like that as a manager.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
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.
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles is not a realist.
God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.
There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.
We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
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.
I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.
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.
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.
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.
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
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.
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.
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.
It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
I think I am a tough grader, because I feel like it’s my job to teach them to write well. I hope my students say I’m a fair teacher.
I hope the people remember Dolce & Gabbana for the sensuality, for the Mediterranean sense, for our honesty to the life.
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!
I am very much looking forward to new adventures – including, I hope, Broadway – sooner rather than later.
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
In my prime, I was the ruler. Simple as that. I understand there’s a lot of great fighters who’ve followed me already since I was the champ – and I hope there’s another who comes along does even better because want to see that – but I haven’t seen anyone do what I did yet.
I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.
One can only hope the person you love will make you the best version of yourself.
No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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.
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
When I receive an award it gives me more encouragement, hope and drive to go forward with my voice to sing better and better.
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.
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.
Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family – that’s impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn’t like a confidence and a promise.
I made ‘Bowling for Columbine’ in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.
I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
In terms of being able to renew my nation, to be able to be able to bring back a devastated country, to restore hope to our people, to lift women and to give them a new horizon, a new ambition and new dreams, in respect of all of that, I think we’ve accomplished it, and I feel very good about that.
I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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.
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.
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.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
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.
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
I hope when I’m 80 that I get to Heaven and God doesn’t recognise me.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
There’s no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I’d sit down and doze off.
Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.
If you help elect more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
I hope people remember me for the kind of person that I am, not because of what I do.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.
Hope looks forward. Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly.
Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.
I’m always happy, in every game, every win I keep writing my history, and I hope to do even more from now on.
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.
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.
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‘satisfactory,’ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?
In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
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.
I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture – you always can hope for another project to design.
I hope royalty continues forever. This is the thing that can contribute to peace throughout the world.
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
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.
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.
I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.
Sure, I love people, and I want to communicate with people. I mean, what is music anyway? It’s a form of communication – at least for me it is. And that’s why I play the kind of music that I think – that I hope – can communicate with people.
I hope people don’t compare 2D and 3D because 3D’s new, it’s unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we’re jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
I’m really fun. I’m ridiculously fun. I hope I’m infectiously fun.
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.
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn’t like a confidence and a promise.
I hope to stop discrimination against young transgender people.
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Hope is not a matter of age.
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
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.
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
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.
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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.
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
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.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Hope is the poor man’s bread.
The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: ‘I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.’ And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.
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.
I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
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.
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.
You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
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.
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.
I hope with all my heart and soul that every young man who receives the priesthood will honor that priesthood and be true to the trust which is conveyed when it is conferred. May each of us who holds the priesthood of God know what he believes.
I’ve heard that the true love of country music is alive and well. That gives me so much hope and so much happiness.
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.
I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
I hope readers will think that ‘The Thing About Life’ is beautifully patterned, a tapestry.
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.
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring – an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
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.
My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
In the end, I still have the same hope as my father – that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word.
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.
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
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.
See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It’s not church. It’s not serious.
I think ‘One Woman Army’ sums up the overall picture. I talk about love, about life, and I talk about what I want and would hope for and what I need as a woman. It kind of just says it all, you know?
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.
My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them – I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
I still believe in hope and that a good song will push itself.
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.’
Germany has become a country that many people abroad associate with hope.
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
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.
I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I’m growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things – being tenacious about it.
Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.
Even as we continue our life, what is important is that, we must keep hope for the future alive.
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
Martin Luther King and Gandhi were not people who failed in self-respect. They were people of hope and great courage, and their courage was disciplined.
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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.
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.
I hope my work contributes to understanding long-term patterns of human behavior and how we survive, thrive, or fail during times of environmental, social, and economic crisis.
I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves.
‘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.
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
I mean, what is music anyway? It’s a form of communication – at least for me it is. And that’s why I play the kind of music that I think – that I hope – can communicate with people.
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.
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.
Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.
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.
I hope one day when I say I’m from Estonia, people don’t say: ‘What? Where’s that?’
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.
I think it’s realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: ‘I despair. The world’s no good.’ That’s a perverse idealist. It’s practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That’s very realistic.
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.
At the end of the day, that’s all I hope for, is that I can sleep well at night knowing that I did everything that I could.
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.
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
I want to find someone who’s really into something like I’m really into something, so that I can support them and we can both cheer each other on. I’ve got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I’ll cheer them on in their dreams.
If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
I hope to be like Bill Gates, bro. With all the money in the world.
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.
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.
I hope that all new filmmakers see that the Internet and social media are helpful tools in establishing a fan base as well as being able to interact with your fans.
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, ‘Hi Bob’ and I’d have to do it five times, and then Bob would take me to the writers to say the line different ways. He wouldn’t let me ad-lib.
If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
This is what we get paid to do, is to bring it every week, and I hope the guys would say I bring it every week. I mean, I love this game, and I bring energy.
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.
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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.
Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur… that’s all me.
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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.
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don’t know what’s there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.
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.
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.
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
I’ve always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I’m involved in. Science gives hope. If it were offered to me? Never say never. But I wouldn’t kill or steal to have my sight. My blindness doesn’t define my life.
And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
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.
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.’
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Our only hope is to control the vote.
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.
The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.
The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.
Hope is the raw material of losers.
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.
I love that Moana is a heroine, and I hope people take that away, and that you most certainly can be the heroine, or hero, of your own story.
So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
I am confident that if we stand for the hope and freedom of others we will make our own freedom more secure.
I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven’t a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I’ve had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
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.
As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, ‘This is what I love doing, and I hope I’m going to be able to do it forever.’
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
I just hope I can give positive energy to the squad.
In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.
I must tell you, I haven’t done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It’s a hard show to do, but I think it’s going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it’s a pretty strong show.
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.
Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.
I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That’s all any of us can hope for.
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.
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.
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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!’
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.
God’s way of answering the Christian’s prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
Some days I’m up, some days I’m down. But I think one thing that does get you moving is hope.
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.
The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.
I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not ‘describe’ the pictures; the pictures would not ‘illustrate’ the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story.
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.
There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.
If a project feels good to you, say yes. And do it with everything that you have and hope that the outcome is good.
There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
I hope to be remembered as a very good jockey.
I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.
For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.
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.
In conclusion, hope quotes serve as guiding lights that inspire us to hold on, persevere, and believe in the power of a brighter tomorrow. May these quotes remind you that no matter the challenges you face, there is always hope to guide you through. Embrace hope as a source of strength, cultivate optimism, and let the light of hope shine brightly in your life. Remember, with hope in your heart, you have the power to overcome, to thrive, and to create a future filled with possibilities.
