Top 65 Quotes About High Hopes
#1. I'm dancing on land mines across your chest.
Hoping high hopes I'll trigger some
Renee Ruin
#2. I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
L. Ron Hubbard
#3. I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that it is not going to be the masterpiece I thought it would be, and I start putting my hopes into the next work.
Robert Genn
#5. The story of his downfall is soon told; for it came, as so often happens, just when he felt unusually full of high hopes, good resolutions, and dreams of a better life.
Louisa May Alcott
#6. It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
Robert Menzies
#7. Julia stood for his youth, and the high hopes he had cherished; and although he might no longer yearn to possess her she would remain nostalgically dear to him while life endured.
Georgette Heyer
#8. People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#9. In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.
Anthony Kiedis
#10. I had high hopes for that girl, but too much of that sort of nonsense and I think her intelligence will explosively dismantle
Iain M. Banks
#11. He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.
Randy Pausch
#12. I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship.
Michel Faber
#13. Have high hopes for the future; take action and it will be a reality.
Debasish Mridha
#14. And yes, the Homesteaders, including my grandparents who left behind almost nothing, and arrived in Montana with nothing but the clothes on their back, high hopes, faith in God and dreaming of the future.
Brian Schweitzer
#15. Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.
Vanilla Ice
#16. Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.
John Milton
#17. OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
Ambrose Bierce
#18. So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.
Dustin Hoffman
#19. None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness of the coming world.
Sufyan Al-Thawri
#20. You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.
Rian Johnson
#21. When people first vote for democracy, they have extremely high hopes, excessive expectations, and they're not realized. They don't instantly get richer and the schools don't instantly get better and the garbage isn't instantly picked up quicker. So they get disillusioned.
Jimmy Carter
#22. I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.
Jack Dangermond
#23. Shadow always had high hopes for haircuts, but they never lived up to his expectations.
After every haircut he looked more or less the same, only with shorter hair.
Neil Gaiman
#24. Her high hopes had set her up for a long fall. And it was never the fall that killed you in the end. It was hitting the bottom that did all the damage.
G.X. Todd
#25. 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' and 'Wish You Were Here' are standout tracks. 'Comfortably Numb' is another one. 'High Hopes' from 'The Division Bell' is one of my favorite all-time Pink Floyd tracks. 'The Great Gig in the Sky,' 'Echoes,' there's lot of them.
David Gilmour
#26. I have high hopes for the book and have already made a down payment on a Ferrari. Well, it's actually a small metal model of a Ferrari, kind of like a Dinky Toy, but a little bit bigger.
Paul Benedetti
#27. I was given the name Prospect because people have high hopes for me.
Dwight Okita
#28. My wife, well she has extensive experience, because before becoming the first lady, she was the wife of the CEO of a large conglomerate. So I have very high hopes that she will carry out her job successfully as first lady of the Republic of Korea.
Lee Myung-bak
#29. That's the only problem with novels,' Mia said. 'They give readers such high hopes that the real world can often be a bit of a letdown.
Victoria Connelly
#30. The last few years haven't been as good so I can fly under the radar, come in and do the best I can and I don't have all these high hopes placed on me.
Katie Hoff
#31. So to some extent he [Barack Obama] is a victim of the expectations and the high hopes that we experienced.
Michael Fullilove
#32. When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.
Margaret Wertheim
#33. [I] had very high hopes for Israel and it's lived up to and surpassed what I had in mind ... I've had such an eye-opening experience - a really nice glimpse into the culture and lives of Israelis and the Jewish people.
Omar Benson Miller
#35. Hopes were high. But just like a balloon pushed past its breaking point, hope is fragile. One lungful of air too many and the balloon bursts leaving ugly, shriveled fragments behind, impossible to piece back together.
Adriane Leigh
#36. No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
Avi Arad
#37. With high hope and optimism, start swimming with time.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence . If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.
Matthew Henry
#39. I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.
Mindy Kaling
#40. The greater danger is not that your hopes are too high and you fail to reach them; it's that they're too low and you do.
Wayne W. Dyer
#41. Calliope feathers on the wings of my hopes and my dreams,
To some day fly high in the lavender sky.
A warm wind caresses my face,
And my heart overflows with grace.
The dawn breaks to herald a dazzling new day,
As I hover, zip, zoom The Hummingbird Way.
Sherri Lynea Gerek
#42. The ANC is very concerned (about shedding votes), hence they are pinning their hopes that those rogue elements will run the elections, so rigging will be on the high. There is no doubt about that
Bantu Holomisa
#43. I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sisters and hears their prophecy, he's like the man who hopes to win a million - a gamble for high stakes.
Roman Polanski
#44. Six Secrets to Being a Successful Humorist 1. Be scared, unhappy, and an outcast as a kid. 2. Drop out of high school. 3. Spend time alone. 4. Don't take a comedy course. 5. Read other humorists but don't worship them. 6. Don't get your hopes up.
Bruce McCall
#45. Michelangelo regarding this subject: "The greater danger is not that our hopes are too high and we fail to reach them, it's that they are too low, and we do.
Wayne W. Dyer
#46. I can't set my hopes too high,
'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye.
Demi Lovato
#47. Sometimes, when your luck shifts, it does it so freaking loud that it jars your bones. I was determined not to get my hopes up crazy high, not about the barn and not about anything else either. But my bones? They fucking sang.
Eli Easton
#48. We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.
Theodore Roosevelt
#49. United Nations needs reform to connect with world community beyond the boundary of high-level bureaucrats and politicians through cyberspace and other means to put itself at the heart of worldwide public needs, hopes, and fears.
Amit Ray
#50. Open your heart, fling your hopes high and set your dreams aloft. I am here to hold your hand.
Maya Angelou
#51. A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.
Richard Watson Gilder
#52. Carry your wings of hope so high in the sky that there is no room left for disappointments.
Heenashree Khandelwal
#53. [T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. Keep your head up and your hopes high, friend; anything is possible.
S.R. Crawford
#55. Dursleys hadn't even remembered that today happened to be Harry's twelfth birthday. Of course, his hopes hadn't been high; they'd never given him a real present,
J.K. Rowling
#56. So lovers of life, don't keep your hopes up high.
Why? Cause it's just a matter of time before it's your turn to die.
But until then, when you stop breathin',
It's time to stand up and fight for what you believe in!
Kirk Jones
#57. My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.
Andrew Carnegie
#58. Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.
Pierre Trudeau
#59. Never put away your labors while the sun is high, Alma, with the hopes of finding more hours to work tomorrow - for you shall never have any more extra time tomorrow than you had today, and once you have fallen behindhand in your responsibilities, you will never catch up.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#60. - Choose a wish , Find a dream , Pick a wishing star , Let you hopes and freedoms sore high and free and far , Just believe in the impossible then work and try to do ; fo only those who dare to dream , Can make a dream come true.
Lillian Ross
#61. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.
Charles R. Swindoll
#62. The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made Americans.
Herbert Hoover
#63. Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.
Maya Angelou
#64. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped
Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,
And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing
Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#65. It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.
Pindar
