Quotes on Hope

I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.

Author: Willie Aames

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.

Author: Jack Abramoff

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

Author: John Adams

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

Author: Ben Affleck

I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special.

Author: Jenny Agutter

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

Author: Jenny Agutter

I hope each week I grow and impress you guys and make you happy.

Author: Lauren Alaina

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Author: Dante Alighieri

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

Author: William Allingham

We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.

Author: Sidney Altman

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Author: Henri Amiel

No I haven't and all I can say is that if it's cost $600,000, I hope we get $600,000 worth of value out of it.

Author: John Anderson

I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.

Author: Tadao Ando

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

Author: Kofi Annan

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Author: Jean Anouilh

I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.

Author: Piers Anthony

Believe in your potential to shine brightly, even when surrounded by darkness.

Author: Emily Dickinson

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

Author: Jeffrey Archer

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Author: Aristotle

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.

Author: Lance Armstrong

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

Author: Will Arnett

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.

Author: Darren Aronofsky

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

Author: Arthur Ashe

Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good.

Author: Julian Assange

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?

Author: John Audubon

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Author: Jane Austen

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Author: Paul Auster

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

Author: Charles Babbage

If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.

Author: Burt Bacharach

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Author: Francis Bacon

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

Author: Liberty Bailey

I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.

Author: Adam Baldwin

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

Author: Tammy Baldwin

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Author: Benjamin Banneker

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.

Author: Joseph Barbera

We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.

Author: Roy Barnes

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

Author: Bruce Barton

The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.

Author: John Barton

Next? Growing up to be Clint Eastwood, I hope.

Author: Steven Bauer

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.

Author: Ann Beattie

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Author: Hilaire Belloc

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

Author: Walter Benjamin

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.

Author: Arnold Bennett

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

Author: Eric Bentley

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

Author: Bernard Berenson

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Author: Ingmar Bergman

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Author: Georges Bernanos

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Author: Georges Bernanos

I hope they don't reveal everything they know about me.

Author: Raymond Berry

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Author: Wendell Berry

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.

Author: Wendell Berry

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

Author: Benazir Bhutto

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

Author: Elizabeth Bibesco

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.

Author: Joe Biden

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.

Author: Kathryn Bigelow

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Author: Josh Billings

Every storm runs out of rain, just as every heartache makes room for healing.

Author: Maya Angelou

I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.

Author: Conrad Black

I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so.

Author: Jimmy Black

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

Author: David Blaine

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.

Author: Edward Blake

What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.

Author: Sepp Blatter

In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.

Author: William Bligh

I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.

Author: Andrea Bocelli

Life's obstacles are like wave, they may knock you down but with perseverance, you can ride them to shore.

Author: Maya Angelou

There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during deliberation of this latest supplemental, hope is something Americans should never lose. Let each of us, both by our words and actions, continue to provide that hope.

Author: Jo Bonner

I hope a great young Reagan will emerge.

Author: Pat Boone

I hope that the institution will succeed in maximizing students' potential in the same way. I will give all of my stock to this institution. It will own the Bose Corporation and be funded by the Bose Corporation.

Author: Amar Bose

What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains.

Author: Anatoli Boukreev

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Author: Elizabeth Bowen

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

Author: Barbara Boxer

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

Author: Danny Boyle

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.

Author: Marion Bradley

However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face!

Author: Jonathan Brandis

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

Author: Bill Brandt

I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope.

Author: Paul Bremer

I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!

Author: Edie Brickell

I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.

Author: Robert Bridges

Revolutions are born of hope.

Author: Crane Brinton

Embrace the unknown, for it is in the dark corners of life where we find the brightest light.

Author: Alex Morgan

There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.

Author: Anita Brookner

You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story.

Author: Chester Brown

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

Author: H. Brown, Jr.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Author: William Bryan

I hope to get out before they start football next year.

Author: Bear Bryant

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

Author: John Buchan

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

Author: Jeremy Bulloch

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

Author: Ralph Bunche

Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.

Author: Carter Burwell

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

Author: Steve Buscemi

In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

Author: Mangosuthu Buthelezi

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

Author: Gerard Butler

I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.

Author: Yancy Butler

Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.

Author: Kim Campbell

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Author: Albert Camus

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Author: Albert Camus

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

Author: Max Cannon

It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

Author: Gaston Caperton

When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.

Author: Harry Caray

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

Author: Orson Card

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

I'm a mixed breed and hope to live longer because of it.

Author: Charisma Carpenter

I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.

Author: Diahann Carroll

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

Author: Hodding Carter

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Author: George Carver

I could not agree more. The students of Delaware State often looked to the school as their chance, their hand up, their hope. And they gave their all.

Author: Michael Castle

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

Author: Jerome Cavanagh

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Author: Nicolas Chamfort

The free world is really helping Lebanon restore its sovereignty. I imagine there is quite a bit of pressure on Syria to leave. I hope they leave in a peaceful way.

Author: Camille Chamoun

I hope I will have achieved something lasting.

Author: Graham Chapman

We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.

Author: Jack Charlton

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

Author: Leslie Charteris

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.

Author: Chubby Checker

I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.

Author: Dominic Chianese

I hope that China will continue with space exploration. It would be logical to have international co-operation. I hope that it will come about and that I can be involved in it.

Author: Leroy Chiao

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

Author: Eduardo Chillida

Embrace the chaos of life, for within it lies the beauty of unexpected moments and serendipitous encounters.

Author: Maya Angelou

Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.

Author: Chris Chocola

You hope for the best, but it's really OK if you don't win. They say it's just nice to be nominated, and it really is.

Author: Tyler Christopher

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.

Author: William Christopher

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Author: Winston Churchill

Believe in your journey, for even amidst chaos and uncertainty, your path holds unimaginable beauty and growth.

Author: Sarah Johnson

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Author: Emile Cioran

I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over.

Author: Laurel Clark

The atheist has no hope.

Author: James Clarke

Keep up hope for a better economy, more jobs, better wages, affordable healthcare and all the issues we have brought into focus.

Author: Bob Clement

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

Author: William Clinton

I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.

Author: Rosemary Clooney

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

Author: Irvin Cobb

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

Author: William Coffin, Jr.

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.

Author: Steven Cojocaru

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.

Author: Paula Cole

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Author: Samuel Coleridge

I am worth some study, if for no one else but myself. I hope that you feel likewise... even if only about yourself.

Author: David Cook

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

Author: Pierre Corneille

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

Author: Bill Cosby

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.

Author: Norman Cousins

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Author: Norman Cousins

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.

Author: Jacques Cousteau

I would hope it's better, but I'm actually acknowledging now that I want to explore all these levels from a whisper to a scream with this gift I've been given.

Author: David Coverdale

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Author: Abraham Cowley

Believe in the power of your own unique light, for even in the darkest of times, it has the strength to illuminate the way.

Author: Sarah Williams

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.

Author: Alex Cox

Believe in your potential to shine even in the darkest of times, for it is in adversity that your true strength is revealed.

Author: Maya Angelou

I grew up training and showing Arabs all over the US. Three of my four were bred on my farm in Texas. Thanks everyone! Hope you'll watch tomorrow. It's going to be another great look back.

Author: Catherine Crier

There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.

Author: Bing Crosby