Top 46 Quotes About Hopefulness
#1. The Russian did not wave or speak, but he looked directly into Billy's soul with sweet hopefulness, as though Billy might have good news for him
news he might be too stupid to understand, but good news all the same.
Kurt Vonnegut
#2. Hopefulness is the heartbeat of the relationship between a parent and child. Each time a child overcomes the next challenge of hislife, his triumph encourages new growth in his parents. In this sense a child is parent to his mother and father.
Louise J. Kaplan
#3. The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.
Charles Baxter
#4. When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.
Kristin Armstrong
#5. Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
Victor Hugo
#6. I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.
George Meyer
#7. A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures as that of my heroine, and it is in the sphere of quiet homes - not elsewhere - I believe that a woman can best rule and save the world.
T.C. Boyle
#8. Getting married is an incredible act of hopefulness.
Ashley Judd
#9. That's the hopefulness of Les Miserables some cynics have ignored, the idea that the individual can rise above the cultural darkness and make a difference.
Bob Welch
#10. As I pedal, I start to get a bad feeling. I start to feel like I have everything all wrong, and that everyone else is right, and all my hopefulness is just childish bullcrap.
Matthew Quick
#11. Maggie Dove wanted to be a beacon of light. She dreamed of being the sort of person who made others laugh, calmed crying babies, soothed wild dogs, inspired hopefulness.
Susan Breen
#12. It really is a shame that through our sad neglect of wonders, hopefulness, and trust we allowed so much clutter and debris to build up in the space that once connected us to Diamond Green.
Michael Chabon
#14. There are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness.
Jean Giono
#15. The revving heart of my hopefulness, kicked into gear anew, is the most precious thing about me, I refuse to vilify it.
Jonathan Lethem
#16. Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Norman Vincent Peale
#17. A promise is an assurance. An assurance builds on optimism. Optimism is a disposition to hopefulness and firm confidence.
S.A. David
#19. His faith demanded his hopefulness, and his hope underpinned his work. He worked to give others the opportunity to hope - that was his abiding ambition.
Mark K. Shriver
#20. It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.
Margery Allingham
#21. But I see history as a book with many pages
and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.
George H. W. Bush
#22. To me, all that urgent hopefulness was more frightening than if I'd found a pile of skulls with hair still attached.
Gillian Flynn
#23. [R]eligion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man.
Will Durant
#24. She recognized the panic at even a moment's boredom that all these piles contained, as well as the unreasonable hopefulness regarding time.
Lorrie Moore
#25. I could hear hopefulness in her voice, but also doubt. She was waiting for me to admit the obvious: I'd forgotten. I was toast. I was boyfriend roadkill.
Rick Riordan
#26. If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.
Brene Brown
#27. Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.
William Empson
#28. [I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely to grow into adults who can find these resources within themselves later on. (from the introduction)
Fred Rogers
#29. There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.
Jill Clayburgh
#30. William Stegner ... coined the term 'the geography of hope,' countering the argument that wilderness preservation served elites with the assertion that wilderness could be a place in which everyone could locate their hopefulness even if few actually entered it.
Rebecca Solnit
#31. Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be hopeful is to take on a different persona, one that risks disappointment, betrayal...
Rebecca Solnit
#32. Maybe you could write to a future version of yourself. Many people write their journals to future selves, I think. It demonstrates a kind of hopefulness.
Cynthia Hand
#33. Imagination belongs to hope. It's the creative dance of possibility.
Sharon Weil
#34. Hope requires waiting. Waiting requires patience.
Sharon Weil
#35. Without hope, I wouldn't even try. Hope lifts me to consider new possibilities so I can stay the course of my desire, no matter what.
Sharon Weil
#36. Hope is a helium balloon. It is a wish lantern set out into the dark sky of night.
Sharon Weil
#37. Hope, that fragile tiny feather of a thing, flew away.
Victoria Kahler
#38. Hopefully and devoutly focus on your greater possibilities.
Bryant McGill
#39. A wish is a single unit of hope. It's a single request for something I dearly desire.
Sharon Weil
#42. Do you feel that? It is a calm shift in the wind.
Do you hear that? It is a soft whisper of hope.
Do you see that? It is the divine hand of guidance, mercifully extended to aid our good fight.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#43. Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth.
Martina Boone
#45. Life can be awful. Life can be ugly.
And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#46. And said with the softness of repressed violence, 'I am not one to stick his neck out; it is a bit of a reach. I was waiting for the smallest sign that you could love me ... I never got it.'
Laertes, Count of Samothrace
Rebecca Ashe
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