Hope - Quotes & Sayings

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

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.

Dave Matthews

Taking my bike out and riding the bike path along Lake Shore Drive, that's one of the great experiences in my life. And I hope to do it as long as I can.

Raghuram Rajan

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.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.

William Christopher

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Aristotle

The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going.

Tommy Lee Jones

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.

Duane Chapman

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.

Maya Angelou

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I hope that people will realize that the struggle to make a life better with a sibling is worth it.

Marie Brenner

I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

Mahershala Ali

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

William Samuel Johnson

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

Rudy Giuliani

Our hope is to deliver an incredibly fun and compelling game that will give the fans more than what they've been waiting for, and show a whole new generation of gamers how much fun it is to live the life of a pirate!

Sid Meier

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.

J. Cole

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

David Henry Hwang

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

Francois Rabelais

Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.

Ada Lovelace

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

Corazon Aquino

I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

Louis Farrakhan

Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity.

Sharan Burrow

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

Hillary Clinton

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Norman Cousins

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Thomas Hardy

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

Ralph Bunche

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

George Lucas

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

Martha Beck

I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

Vin Scully

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

Ed Bradley

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.

Bernard Williams

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

Janine di Giovanni

I hope that others can turn their negative thoughts into positive thoughts and improve their own lives.

Farrah Abraham

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.

Lou Holtz

I always see the glass half full. I see the beauty in others, and I see the hope for tomorrow. If we don't have hope and faith, we have nothing.

Craig Sager

When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.

Kirsten Gillibrand

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

Thomas Sowell

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.

Barbara Kingsolver

My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.

Jackie Evancho

Hollywood is a casino. You have to put your chips on the table and hope for the best.

Byron Allen

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Thomas Fuller

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

Billy Corgan

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

Magic Johnson

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill

You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.

Octavia Spencer

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.

Epictetus

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Martin Luther

My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

Rahul Dravid