Hope - Quotes & Sayings

I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn't define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her a intelligent, strong and responsible woman.

Isaiah Mustafa

I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.

Calvin Johnson

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Aristotle Onassis

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Dalai Lama

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Victoria Osteen

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Tertullian

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

Gillian Anderson

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Lionel Messi

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

John Buchan

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

Karl A. Menninger

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

George Allen, Sr.

While there's life, there's hope.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Norman Cousins

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Frank Lloyd Wright

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Walt Disney

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

Edward Jenner

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

Rebecca Solnit

I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.

Bahman Ghobadi

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

James Madison

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

Daisaku Ikeda

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

T. S. Eliot

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

Epicurus

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

Vaclav Havel

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Kofi Annan

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Arthur Miller

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

Danny Boyle

Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.

Emanuel Cleaver

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

Elvis Presley

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'

Demetri Martin

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

Anne Lamott

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

Dolly Parton

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

Franz Schubert

Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists.

Samantha Power

The big thing for me is just continuing to be a beacon of hope. And showing people that nothing is impossible.

Victoria Arlen

Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades - not of weeks. Its means of aggression consist not only of nuclear weapons and missiles with enormous boosters, and not only of spies, agents and terrorists, but of great masses of men and women, deluded by a common ideology which inspires them with a false hope.

Robert Kennedy

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

John Wayne

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

Jonathan Kellerman

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

George Washington

I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old.

Jack Whitehall

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Wendell Berry