Top 100 Best Hope Quotes
#1. Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.
Bertrand Russell
#2. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#3. but the stories on the edge of civilization are horrible things. They're as cruel and violent as the nastiest fairy tales, but they don't have any hope or happily-ever-afters. They have victims, not heroes. The best you get is to escape and go home.
Richard Roberts
#4. But nowhere is this a more urgent task than in matters of eros, the first and best hope of human connectedness in a world where all connectedness has become problematic
Allan Bloom
#5. But when nothing in your life happens in a positive frame, it is difficult to think positively and hope for the best.
Faraaz Kazi
#6. Look," he said, "the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst."
If you expect the worst, you're never disappointed," I pointed out.
Yeah, but who lives like that?
Sarah Dessen
#8. A best friend is he who hurts you with their love and feels you when you're hurt.
Debasish Mridha
#9. We're sending you best wishes
And hope your day goes well
And that you'll find some memories
With stories you can tell
Of how you had a marvelous time
And those around you too
With fun and lots of laughter
And all this just for you..
Have a Very Happy Birthday
Janet Horne
#10. People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there's no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just have to push forward. You have to follow your vision and hope for the best. You have to write for love.
Cheryl Strayed
#11. The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.
Phil Jackson
#12. Let's try our best? I hope that someday the many, many tears that were shed will be worth it.
Natsuki Takaya
#13. There will be positive and negative references with everything we do in life. At best we can simply hope that overtime, the positive outweighs the negative.
Jay Danzie
#14. Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. I will be hoping that this letter finds you, and finds you well.
The Shawshank Redemption
#15. In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of the best and most responsible kind of agriculture: an old man caring for a young tree. (pg. 123, The Body and the Earth)
Wendell Berry
#16. People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.
David Chalmers
#17. Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!'
Dale Archer
#18. In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
Aberjhani
#19. To be all right implies an impossible phase. We hope for mostly right on the best of our days.
Marissa Meyer
#20. The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?'
Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.
J.K. Rowling
#21. So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.
Brandi Chastain
#22. People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years.
Allison Pearson
#23. I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of ... I guess 'hope' is the right word?
Eric Bachmann
#24. Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.
Studs Terkel
#25. I always say to myself that if I can make a movie that makes a kid smile or gives them some hope or something to get excited about, then I'm applying myself in the best way that I can. I don't think that just goes for kids. I think that it goes for adults, as well, and for families.
Nicolas Cage
#26. Pray not while you can work. Hope is the least of what life can afford you, never the best. Hope is a plague, never a blessing, especially when the answer is sought not from us but from others. It is unqualified burden to expect something from nothing.
Dew Platt
#27. I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.
Gene Sarazen
#28. I hope you theorists know what you're doing.' 'I can assure you that we don't. The geometry is still beyond us. All I learnt in the void was that our best guess so far is certainly wrong.
Greg Egan
#29. You see, love is a funny thing. There are no guarantees, just the day-to-day and the moment. You make vows, hope for the best, and do your damnedest to love the person you're with.
Jennifer Probst
#30. We never know what a day will bring us, but one thing we do know is that every morning we can wake up, smile and hope for the best. SMILE IT'S A NEW DAY
Ellen K. Wookey
#31. SALLY: Grab what you want and hope for the best.
Bijou Hunter
#32. One can only hope the person you love will make you the best version of yourself.
Mia Maestro
#33. The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrow currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#34. And you can do far more for us from America than you can from here, where you're just another defenseless Christian. So if you really want to help, Inas, then you'll go to the very best school you can get into and earn the best grades you can.
Zack Love
#35. You're the last Olympian," I said. "And the most important." "And why is that, Percy Jackson?" "Because Hope survives best at the hearth," I said.
Rick Riordan
#36. Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It's the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop.
Steve Yzerman
#37. Perhaps this is the solution to medicine's midlife crisis, too: doctors focusing on their noble craft, their relationships with patients, the stuff over which we have some control. Ultimately, this may be the best hope for our professional salvation.
Sandeep Jauhar
#38. I feel very lucky and very blessed. I just hope that I can keep doing my job and that people keep liking what I do and that the opportunities continue. That's the best that I can hope for.
Luke Mitchell
#39. To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman; and I sincerely hope and wait for it, and wise to prepare for it; so that when the happy time comes, you may feel ready for the duties and worthy of the joy.
Louisa May Alcott
#41. If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#43. You could pay Arthur Janov to teach you to scream about history, or you could learn prayer or a mantra, or you could write your life down and hope to make peace with it, write it down, or paint it, or turn it into improvisational theater, but that was the best you could probably do. You were stuck.
Rick Moody
#44. Having failed to conquer myself, my best hope now is to arrange an alliance with myself.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#45. Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men.
~ Gandalf to Pippin
J.R.R. Tolkien
#47. Spend your money for education; it will pay you the best dividend. No one will be able to steal is and you will not lose it for a second.
Debasish Mridha
#48. I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.
It never is, sir.
Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.
I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.
Oscar Wilde
#49. The hope is the best and the worst thing at the same time.
Pawan Mishra
#50. So, instead, I try to put in light and hope for the best.
Ben Linder
#52. If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.
Paulo Coelho
#53. If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win.
Daniel Dennett
#54. Arthur," she said, "there are some things quite beyond your powers."
"Yes, I know," he said steadily. "But if no one ever tries to strive against them no one will ever succeed. We must simply do our best, you know. And hope.
L.J.Smith
#55. There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.
John Moulder Wilson
#56. Optimism is not fantasy. It hopes for the best reality without departing from it.
James Randall Robison
#57. As they lurch down the hallway and finally make it to the kitchen, it occurs to Joe that this is the best anyone can hope for in life. Someone you love to stagger through the hard times with.
Lisa Genova
#58. Christianity is wild. It's intimate. It's heartbreaking and soul-mending. It's the wings to rise above the everyday and hope of a honeymoon with the God who has loved you forever. The party has just begun, and the best is yet to come.
Steven James
#59. On the issue of Iraq, it is my hope, and my challenge to my colleagues, that our debate will be based on what is best for the future of our nation and for Iraq, not what's best for a political party or presidential campaign.
Mitch McConnell
#60. I think I just want to leave my mark in some way. I hope I leave the world a better place than it was when I came, and I think the best way I can do that is through acting and writing, and hopefully it will make a difference someday.
Chris Colfer
#61. Ah-ha! On the stove was a cast-iron skillet. Perfect. Precisely how hard did you have to hit someone on the head to knock him out without killing him? I wasn't sure. Guess I'd just have to bash away and hope for the best.
Linda Grimes
#62. Real life is not a love story. It's a series of tough decisions, disappointments and compromise. It ain't glamorous or fluffy, and it doesn't always have a happy ending. We live. And we learn. And sometimes that's the best we can hope for.
Joanne Phillips
#63. I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.
Wale
#64. You carry on. That's what he'd always done. That's the task that comes with surviving, whether you deserve to live or not. You remember the dead as best you can. You say some words for them. Then you carry on, and you hope for better.
Joe Abercrombie
#65. The best thing about religion is that it's so transparently absurd it can't possibly last forever. I'm convinced it will only take a small shift in human consciousness for it to be laughed off the planet, and I hope I'm still around when that happens.
Pat Condell
#67. So I tried my best to stifle hope. Because hope's twin was despair, and despair was infinitely worse. If hope hurt, then despair was the absence of hurt. It was the absence of feeling. It was the absence of caring. I wanted very much to care.
S. Jae-Jones
#68. But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.
John James Audubon
#69. I would not lose so great an honor
As one man more methinks would share with me
For the best hope I have.
William Shakespeare
#70. I prepare for the worst, but hope for the best.
Jackie Chan
#71. You're fun to look at," decided Galinda.
Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said.
I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-
Gregory Maguire
#72. But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.
Janette Rallison
#74. Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.
Maya Angelou
#75. Focus on the POSITIVE
Recognize the BLESSINGS
Find the HUMOR
Hope for the BEST
&
Brace yourself for the worst.
Tanya Masse
#76. Try to be the best even if you can't be the best, you will be among the betters.
Debasish Mridha
#77. You have a good heart, down to the very core of it, and you see the world with so much hope and light. You believe in yourself, you think the best of everyone and you thought the best of me.
Michelle Madow
#78. I imagined it was far better to be optimistic, to proceed assuming wherever you could that you had cared enough, that you'd made a difference, that you would again. Dwelling on the worst was no way to live.
Gwenda Bond
#79. Well they have to have something to wean Caluntians off Venusian moles. Seems humans are the best therapy, to consume that is. They say we are a bit gamey though. An acquired taste, one we hope not many acquire.
Neil Leckman
#80. The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.
Michael Ignatieff
#81. It's said that prayer can move mountains. Well, it's certainly moved the hearts and minds of Americans in their times of trial and helped them to achieve a society that, for all its imperfections, is still the envy of the world and the last, best hope of mankind.
Ronald Reagan
#82. He was good and bad and I loved both sides of him. God help me, I guess I still do." "You and most kids," Billy said. "You love your folks and hope for the best. What else can you do?
Stephen King
#83. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
Lee Child
#84. There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.
Christopher Walken
#85. 'Lost Girl' has just proven to be one of those shows that people enjoy watching. It has an alchemy about it. It's an escape or a release for people, and that's the best we can hope for.
Kris Holden-Ried
#86. I'm very appreciative, I'm feeling very blessed and I like to live in the moment so any person I meet, I start to leave my mark. As far as my work goes, I just hope that people like it when I do it. I certainly give my best and try to learn as much as I can while I'm working or studying for a role.
Ryan Guzman
#87. Lots of birthday wishes
Are sent to you today
Hope your day will be
One of the best
You've ever had!
Julie McGregor
#89. If you're looking for hope and change, you'll find a lot of both in the direction of Rome. It's the best kind of hope because it offers forever and the best kind of change because it happens in your own life.
Mary Matalin
#90. Hope for the best,brace yourself for the worst and no matter what you're faced with, make a plan to KEEP GOING!
Tanya Masse
#91. We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise.
In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.
Yukio Mishima
#92. Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand- - that and such hope as I bring.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#93. Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.
Bill Bryson
#94. You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there's an audience at the end of the day.
Sally Hawkins
#95. You always study the players you go against. You try and stay ahead of it. Those guys are just too good to just show up on Sunday and think you're going to do well. Every week it seems like there's an all-star out there - to me, anyway. Every week is a rodeo. You just hope for the best.
Tom Ashworth
#97. The best I can hope for is the occasional moment of loose happy freedom - found usually with Harp but once or twice on this trip with Peter - that tells me it's okay. That if I was put on this earth for any particular reason, it was to experience love and joy, just like anybody else.
Katie Coyle
#98. There are certain episodes that on the page I thought, "Oh boy, this is going to be the funniest episode." And there are other ones that went in, fingers crossed, saying, "Oh well, let's hope something good comes out of it." Oftentimes, those ones wind up being the best ones.
Charlie Day
#99. It takes the same amount of energy to worry about the worst thing that can happen as it does to hope for the best. It's up to you to choose.
Gail Tsukiyama
#100. We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity.
Bryan Stevenson
