Hope Quotes

Today's Hope Quote · April 17, 2026
"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."
— Ovid
Hope is the light that guides us through darkness. When everything seems lost, these quotes remind us that better days are always ahead and that the human spirit is unbreakable.

All Hope Quotes

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

— Albert Einstein

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."

— Dalai Lama

"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

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."

— Elbert Hubbard

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Mark Twain

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."

— Emily Dickinson

"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."

— Oscar Wilde

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

— Epicurus

"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

"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Aristotle

"Hope is the dream of a waking man."

— Aristotle

"We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds."

— Aristotle Onassis

"Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday."

— John Wayne

"Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment."

— Evan Esar

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

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

— Martin Luther

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest."

— Alexander Pope

"I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again."

— Anne Frank

"Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people."

— Marcus Garvey

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

— Thomas Carlyle

"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing."

— T. S. Eliot

"A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope."

— Charles M. Schulz

"Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope."

— Arnold H. Glasow

"At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division."

— Jesse Jackson

"Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated."

— Henry Rollins

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

— Francis Bacon

"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity."

— Robert Green Ingersoll

"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."

— Jim Henson

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

— Martha Beck

"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out."

— Christopher Reeve

"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."

— William Makepeace Thackeray

"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."

— Michelangelo

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."

— Samuel Smiles

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

— Will Durant

"Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another."

— Elie Wiesel

"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."

— Lillian Hellman

"Hope will never be silent."

— Harvey Milk

"I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him."

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Arthur Ashe

"Uncertainty is the refuge of hope."

— Henri Frederic Amiel

"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."

— Antonio Porchia

"All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope."

— Alexandre Dumas

"The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint."

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

"All hope abandon, ye who enter here!"

— Dante Alighieri

"How disappointment tracks the steps of hope."

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

"I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff."

— Louis C. K.

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'."

— Erma Bombeck

"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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."

— John Lennon

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

— Thomas Jefferson

"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."

— Stendhal

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

— Dale Carnegie

"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough."

— Richard M. DeVos

"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."

— William Shakespeare

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."

— Thomas Jefferson

"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."

— Thomas Jefferson

"I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away."

— Dalai Lama

"The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on."

— Warren Buffett

"My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair."

— Thomas Jefferson

"Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them."

— Vincent McNabb

"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

"No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible."

— George Chakiris

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

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Napoleon Hill

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."

— George Washington

"And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it."

— John Lennon

"But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful."

— Elizabeth Edwards

"A leader is a dealer in hope."

— Napoleon Bonaparte

"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse."

— Walt Disney

"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

— Vaclav Havel

"I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers."

— Demetri Martin

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved."

— Rupert Murdoch

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

— Arthur Miller

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

"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."

— Bill Cosby

"I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back."

— Steve Jobs

"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

— Baruch Spinoza

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."

— Robert H. Schuller

"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."

— Ernest Hemingway

"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."

— Lance Armstrong

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Thomas Hardy

"To me, we're marketing hope."

— Joel Osteen

"I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God."

— Robert E. Lee

"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."

— Leonardo da Vinci

"My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope."

— Demetri Martin

"I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope."

— Joel Osteen

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God."

— Rick Warren

"I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor."

— Judy Garland

"Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker."

— Mitt Romney

"I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun."

— Nicole Kidman

"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

"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more."

— John Adams

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

— Pliny the Elder

"God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world."

— Billy Graham

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

— Victor Hugo

"It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics."

— Thomas Carlyle

"At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't."

— Rodney Dangerfield

"Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent."

— Gore Vidal

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

— Ambrose Bierce

"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."

— Ambrose Bierce

"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."

— Edmund Burke

"Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves."

— Henry Miller

"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors."

— William Hazlitt

"I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free."

— Nikos Kazantzakis

"I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Epictetus

"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man."

— Richard P. Feynman

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

— Thomas Carlyle

"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

"Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that."

— Marco Rubio

"I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery."

— Rene Descartes

"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

— George Eliot

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

— Ambrose Bierce

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."

— Joseph Conrad

"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."

— Malcolm Forbes

"We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope."

— Epictetus

"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?"

— Immanuel Kant

"Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route."

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way."

— Jenny McCarthy

"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."

— Emily Dickinson

"Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale."

— Will Durst

"Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him."

— Michelangelo

"In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors."

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"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

"I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."

— Yves Saint Laurent

"If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning."

— Chuck Palahniuk

"I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you."

— Andy Rooney

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."

— Anne Lamott

"Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity."

— Vaclav Havel

"Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent."

— Mignon McLaughlin

"Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy."

— P. J. O'Rourke

"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of."

— Lord Byron

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

— Niels Bohr

"Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace."

— James Russell Lowell

"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing."

— Robert Green Ingersoll

"One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again."

— Jim Carrey

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

— Pope John Paul II

"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."

— Gustave Flaubert

"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."

— Ben Affleck

"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."

— Charles M. Schulz

"You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do."

— Fran Lebowitz

"The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world."

— James Madison

"Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place."

— Colin Powell

"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free."

— Pearl S. Buck

"Among physicists, I'm respected I hope."

— Stephen Hawking

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."

— Samuel Johnson

"I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for."

— April Winchell

"I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me."

— Brian Clough

"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

— Samuel Johnson

"Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings."

— James A. Baldwin

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."

— William Cowper

"A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day."

— Grandma Moses

"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."

— Desmond Tutu

"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."

— E. M. Forster

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."

— Robert Green Ingersoll

"At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about."

— Janis Ian

"This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all."

— Lord Byron

"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

"When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there."

— Jim Henson

"Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die."

— Alexander Pope

"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen."

— Desiderius Erasmus

"I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs."

— James Herriot

"Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise."

— Karl Rahner

"Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive."

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

"You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things."

— Jon Stewart

"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope."

— Reinhold Niebuhr

"Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within."

— Stephen Jay Gould

"Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others."

— Jim Valvano

"I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do."

— Maynard James Keenan

"The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear."

— Thomas Huxley

"I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife."

— E. O. Wilson

"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

"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."

— George Santayana

"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."

— John Ciardi

"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."

— Conrad Black

"I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story."

— Elvis Presley

"All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from."

— Aaliyah

"Not without hope we suffer and we mourn."

— William Wordsworth

"I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment."

— Paul Tillich

"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."

— Joseph Addison

"The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless."

— Anne Lamott

"Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one."

— Baltasar Gracian

"I hope to die in the saddle seat."

— Albert Ellis

"I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure."

— George W. Bush

"What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?"

— Immanuel Kant

"The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at."

— Simone Weil

"I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big."

— Lady Gaga

"I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it."

— Oscar Hammerstein II

"Hope is the denial of reality."

— Margaret Weis

"Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for."

— Washington Irving

"Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow."

— Susanna Moodie

"I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope."

— Jerry Lewis

"A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm."

— Stanislav Grof

"I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here."

— Madeleine Albright

"It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate."

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Josh Billings

"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

"I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son."

— Charlize Theron

"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."

— Sonia Sotomayor

"I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people."

— Geezer Butler

"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well."

— Oliver Herford

"Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater."

— William Ralph Inge

"Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted."

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

"When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead."

— Judith Viorst

"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty."

— David Hume

"Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope."

— Mahalia Jackson

"Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you."

— Paul Ryan

"Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope."

— Mick Jagger

"Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting."

— Charles Stanley

"I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears."

— Thomas S. Monson

"Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear."

— Ovid

"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."

— Elie Wiesel

"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

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

— John Dryden

"My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel."

— Roseanne Barr

"One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve."

— George Allen, Sr.

"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

— Margaret Atwood

"Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea."

— Yoshio Taniguchi

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

— Vaclav Havel

"If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it."

— Doug Coupland

"It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart."

— Jonathan Carroll

"Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check."

— Baltasar Gracian

"A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope."

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Hodding Carter

"I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region."

— Madeleine Albright

"I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though."

— Lady Gaga

"Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it."

— Jennifer Aniston

"I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs."

— Adele

"I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope."

— Alanis Morissette

"Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness."

— Alphonsus Liguori

"One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes."

— Gustave Flaubert

"To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois."

— Paul Ryan

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."

— Desmond Tutu

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Once you choose hope, anything is possible."

— Christopher Reeve

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

— Emily Dickinson

"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."

— George Washington Carver

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast."

— Alexander Pope

"You may say I am a dreamer, but I am not the only one."

— John Lennon

"However long the night, the dawn will break."

— African Proverb

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

— Victor Hugo

"When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. But when all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope."

— Pittacus Lore

"Hope is a waking dream."

— Aristotle

"There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope."

— Bernard Williams

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

— Albert Einstein

"Hope is passion for the possible."

— Soren Kierkegaard

"A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope."

— Epictetus

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

— Helen Keller

"The darkest hours are just before dawn."

— Thomas Fuller

"While there is life, there is hope."

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever."

— Roy T. Bennett

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

— Walt Whitman

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