Top 33 Quotes About Hopeful Thinking

#1. But the hunter was also the hunted,
For many of my arrows left my bow only to seek my own breast ...

Kahlil Gibran

#2. I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.

John Green

#3. I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.

John Irving

#4. Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.

Martin Seligman

#5. The far we can see, we are! It is time we lifted our eyes beyond the horizon of our present boundaries and see goodies ahead of us.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. I think it reflects the reality on the ground, that this was an important milestone that's been achieved by the Iraqi people, and it's a significant development. It's a real hopeful moment for democracy in Iraq.

Scott McClellan

#7. I think Samuel Johnson had it right when he observed that hope is itself a species of happiness. So if we want to be happy it only makes sense to discipline ourselves to choose our attitudes, to think positively and to be hopeful.

Michael Josephson

#8. God is calling you to relinquish your old habits and beliefs that are holding you back from being all He called you to be. To trust that He has something bigger and better in store for you.

Dana Arcuri

#9. I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful ... This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.

Terence McKenna

#10. If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.

Martin Luther

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

Martha Beck

#12. The Lord sustained me.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history.

Carl Sagan

#14. His curse in life was to be attracted to people who understood him.

Glen David Gold

#15. I remain hopeful that science, innovation and kindness will come to the fore as things become more and more tense in parts of the world. I think what you are seeing in the world right now is kind of a leveling or an attempt to level the playing field.

Henry Rollins

#16. I think it's incomparably sweet when someone writes something for you..
even if it doesn't rhyme or even if it isn't very amorous..
even two lines of hatred written for you acknowledges the fact that someone spent a little of his time thinking about you.

Sanhita Baruah

#17. TIP #5: Never stop thinking. No matter how dark the times, a great idea can give you a hopeful light.

Rob Buyea

#18. Thinking of you is pretty, hopeful,
It is like listening to the most beautiful song
From the most beautiful voice on earth ...
But hope is not enough for me any more,
I don't want to listen to songs any more,
I want to sing.

Nazim Hikmet

#19. I will say that I appreciate Hillary Clinton's awareness and passion for women. I think she is overqualified in the sense that she's been in the White House, so she knows the drill. I am hopeful that she will continue to support minorities and create better opportunities.

Nia Long

#20. If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.

Marianne Williamson

#21. The Lord shall be your comfort in times of distress.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. Learning patience takes a lot of patience!

Tim Hansel

#23. Positive thinkers look for good in every situation. In times of difficulty, the can find many opportunities.

Israelmore Ayivor

#24. By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

Jack Youngblood

#25. The road of negative thinking gets dark, very fast. Turn around, quickly, before the light - your hope,
vanishes.

Charles F. Glassman

#26. Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#27. To be optimistic is NOT a blind sentiment in regard to the reality of life; but a hopeful view for the present moment

Quetzal

#28. I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.

John Lewis

#29. In any situation, there is hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. If you have to dwell on anything, think of noble pure thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one get's left behind, not just by talking about it but by doing it, I think is really a key [to political success].

John Kasich

#32. The way we dress
affects the way we
think.
the way we
feel.
the way we
act.
& the way others
react
to us.

Judith Rasband

#33. The FBI continues to be a broken, anachronistic organization, but state and local law enforcement officials are much more attuned to the kind of threat we're facing. I think that's very hopeful, but it's a long-term process.

Michael Scheuer

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