Hope Quotes: Inspiring Words of Optimism and Encouragement (Page 3)

"And I came close to losing a part of my foot on two occasions. I hope I'm consistently lucky and that the next time I develop a blister or step on something sharp, that I don't go as far as I did on those two times"

Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

"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"

Anatoli Boukreev, Athlete

"On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!"

Alexander Henry, Businessman

"Got through it without fluffing, that's the main thing any actor can hope for"

John Leeson, Actor

"I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't"

Viggo Mortensen, Actor

"The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake"

Basil C. Hume

"He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever"

Michael Foot, Politician

"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"

Studs Terkel, Journalist

"I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"How disappointment tracks the steps of hope"

Letitia Landon

"I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women"

Robert B. Parker, Writer

"People are hungry for messages of hope and life"

Morgan Brittany, Actress

"Hope and fear cannot alter the season"

Chogyam Trungpa, Philosopher

"It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality"

Griffin Dunne, Actor

"From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea"

Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poet

"Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day"

Anita Diament, Author

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

Georges Bernanos, Author

"His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice"

John Stott, Clergyman

"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Uncertainty is the refuge of hope"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms"

Mark Twain, Author

"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man"

Victor Hugo, Author

"A leader is a dealer in hope"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"While there's life, there's hope"

Cicero, Philosopher

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

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself"

Cicero, Philosopher

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

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Hope is the dream of a waking man"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Hope is a waking dream"

Aristotle, Philosopher

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

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

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

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world"

Abraham Lincoln, President

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