Hope - Quotes & Sayings

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Even if my fellow man has proven faithless time after time, I can at least retain a hope that he will improve, pray for him, and think kindly without frustration and disappointment.

Mother Angelica

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.

David Tennant

If Thai citizens still hold this harmony in their hearts, there is hope that in whatever the situation, Thailand will surely get through it safely and with stability.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, 'I want you to emerge stronger from this.' My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded.

Rudy Giuliani

I hope that I helped to build a fierce pride in what we are and what we can do if we set our minds to it.

Gene Roddenberry

During the worst days of apartheid, we turned to the church for hope and courage as we fought a righteous struggle for a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist, just, and prosperous South Africa.

Cyril Ramaphosa

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

Jim DeMint

In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

Katha Pollitt

I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.

Veerappa Moily

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

Orson Scott Card

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.

Charles Lindbergh

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

Daisaku Ikeda

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.

William Godwin

I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues.

Sara Paretsky

We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.

Tony Snow

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

Pope John Paul II

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Stephen King

In addition to being what we are as BTS, we wanted to bring some changes, and we actually wanted to evolve as a group. We wanted to show our many colors, but we still want to console others and give hope to others.

Suga

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

Anne Lamott

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

Kelly Clarkson

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

Maria Bamford

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

Siri Hustvedt

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.

James Longstreet

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.

Jack Harbaugh

I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!

Jordin Sparks

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

Paul de Man

Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.

Jim Ramstad

Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.

Laura Donnelly

Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.

Max Weber

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

John Dryden

Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

Suzanne Collins

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.

Tom T. Hall

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.

Muriel Rukeyser

I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.

Guido van Rossum

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Erich Fromm

I hope to be remembered as a very good jockey.

Chantal Sutherland

I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.

Jens Lekman

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

Melissa Etheridge

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Martha Beck

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Eric Hoffer

'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

Charles Spurgeon

You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Samuel Ullman

I'm feeling pretty good right now, but I hope we can just win the whole thing and I can run off into the sunset and say good-bye.

David Wells

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

James Cameron

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Pliny the Elder

I choose to live without hope to protect myself from disappointment. It's very effective!

Spencer Kayden

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

John F. Kennedy