Quotes About Hope

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

You always have that moment where you grow up and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm being exactly like my mother." I think that's everyone's greatest hope and worst fear.

We have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it.

Though you lose all hope, there is still hope, and it loves to surprise.

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.

Your spirit is the part of you that seeks meaning and purpose. It's the part drawn to hope, that will not give in to despair.

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

I hope someday we can stamp out illiteracy in America. Of course you'll have to kill alot of my relatives to do it.

You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

My balance is really bad. I just hope my clumsiness doesn't show through.

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

Hope is the best part of our riches.