Hope Quotes

"To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow"

"An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength"

"Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace"

Frank B. Kellogg, Politician

"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped"

Lillian Hellman, Dramatist

"If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time"

Gary Player, Athlete

"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

"Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will"

Josh Hartnett, Actor

"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, Poet

"I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women"

John Bright, Politician

"Hope is the raw material of losers"

Fernando Flores, Politician

"Hope is but the dream of those who wake"

Matthew Prior, Poet

"As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"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

"Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death"

Paul Ricoeur, Philosopher

"The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity"

Ignatius Donnelly, Politician

"You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us"

Sellapan Ramanathan, Statesman

"My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness"

Gabrielle Roy, Author

"Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"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

"Where there's tea there's hope"

Arthur W. Pinero

"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, Politician

"Fear and hope are alike underneath"

Richard Ford, Author

"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

"To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective"

Liz Smith, Journalist

"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

"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

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