Top 100 Quotes About Hopes
#1. I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#2. I don't mean to cast a dark shadow on all your hopes and dreams, except of course I do, because that is who I am. I'm a dream ruiner.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#3. Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.
Ann Landers
#4. If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it ...
Misty Upham
#5. It's the past. Thoughts and dreams, hopes and hurts, all brewed together, fermenting slowly in the fusty air, unable ever to dissipate completely.
Kate Morton
#6. So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.
John Milton
#8. I sent my words out onto the wind
to paths unseen and parts unknown
in hopes people will enjoy
this book of poetic words I've sown
Charles Johnson
#9. Gracefully and gratefully accept the changes in our lives as casually and flexibly like a butterfly does." ~ Angelica Hopes, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul
Angelica Hopes
#10. An almost seismic sense of expectation emanates from a college campus. That is the true elixir of youth: the grand, the glorious, the magnificent hopes and dreams because all things - all things - are yet possible.
Carolyn Hart
#11. We may forget our dead, but dead will never forget us. They call upon us from the border of unknown, reminding us of our solemn duties in fulfilling their hopes
Pierre Van Paassen
#12. Before them: the girls whose hearts were to be wrung were yet fair little maidens a-star with hopes and dreams.
L.M. Montgomery
#13. The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes.
Walter Scott
#15. True understanding involves sincere honesty and holistic, deep listening without the political corruption of evil power players. ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my book K.H. trilogy
Angelica Hopes
#16. Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.
Ronald Reagan
#17. As we ask God for some blessing, we have an obligation to participate ourselves in the fulfillment of those dreams, aspirations, hopes, and ideas.
Jimmy Carter
#18. I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.
Noam Chomsky
#19. The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes.
John Nelson Darby
#20. My role as your master is to debase you to the point of having no feelings, no emotions, no hopes or dreams
Pepper Winters
#21. It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#22. The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.
Hunter S. Thompson
#23. He was summertime itself, young, luminous, lit from within by rekindled hopes and reawakened dreams. And every beggar along his path - herself included - could expect redoubled generosity and kindness.
Sherry Thomas
#24. One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.
Chris Frantz
#25. I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires.
Andrew Motion
#26. It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister - a person with hopes and dreams.
Melinda Gates
#27. The age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a sense of common predicament. Poor people didn't unite; they competed ferociously amongst themselves for gains as slender as they were provisional.
Katherine Boo
#28. I just share my story in hopes that some people out there who have gone through different circumstances might be encouraged and inspired that even in their circumstances to know that there is nothing God can't change.
Nick Vujicic
#29. Grief had refined her girlish prettiness, she had the clear decided looks of a woman who had seen her hopes destroyed.
Philippa Gregory
#30. Have you ever heard of the theory that it is better for one man to die than an entire nation to suffer? Do you believe that to be true? Is it ever okay to take a life in hopes of saving others?
Sara B. Larson
#31. Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
Ada Cambridge
#32. She murmured a 'Thank you', seated herself and her buried hopes in this chair which did not whirl round, and leaned her arms upon a table which did not even dream in mahogany.
Susan Glaspell
#33. Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
Horace
#35. I love autumn despite the drench weather. I think it symbolises the end of misery and the beginning of glee. It gives hopes that sooner or later, flowers will bloom again, green buds will sprout from trees, and that which is dead will come back alive.
Aishah Madadiy
#36. A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#37. The day's dashed hopes had temporarily reduced her to the childish presumption that someone she loved should, in return for that love, be able to read her mind.
Myla Goldberg
#39. Coherently democratic authority carries the conviction that true discipline does not exist in the muteness of those who have been silenced but in the stirrings of those who have been challenged, in the doubt of those who have been prodded, and in the hopes of those who have been awakened.
Paulo Freire
#40. But, oh, when gloomy doubts prevail,
I fear to call thee mine;
The springs of comfort seem to fail,
And all my hopes decline.
Yet, gracious God, where shall I flee?
Thou art my only trust;
And still my soul would cleave to thee,
Though prostrate in the dust.
Anne Steele
#41. I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed - it was - impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.
Lev Grossman
#42. O little feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears, Must ache and bleed beneath your load; I, nearer to the wayside inn Where toil shall cease and rest begin, Am weary, thinking of your road!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#43. I promise to love you unconditionally, to support you in your goals and dreams, to honor and respect you, to laugh with you and cry with you, to share my hopes and dreams with you, and bring you solace in times of need.
E.L. James
#44. Chauvinism is totally absent in a heart of a man who truly respects a woman.
~ Angelica Hopes, Life Issues
Angelica Hopes
#45. We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as we think they should; otherwise we get agitated. But we are here to accept the world as it is, even as we work to make it better.
Eknath Easwaran
#46. It is important if someone asks you to remember one of your happiest times to consider not only the question but also the questioner. If the question is asked by someone you love, it is fair to assume that this person hopes to feature in this recollection he has called forth.
Jenny Offill
#47. We exercise kindness in any moment when we recognize our shared humanity - with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering that implies.
Sharon Salzberg
#48. Real affection does not see anything in terms of 'rights', nor does it even care if it is reciprocated. It merely waits by the door and hopes."
From 'A Walking Shadow
E.M. Swift-Hook
#49. There are some great roles mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that one can hit the peaks as often as one has the strength.
Peggy Ashcroft
#50. I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me,
Charles Ponzi
#51. I regret having to play the role of Cassandra once more and having to disappoint the fresh hopes of certain ever hopeful colleagues, but there is no possible evolution in a totalitarian society.
Albert Camus
#52. When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.
Greg Bear
#53. Fate, suffering, changing, expected outcomes, killing dreams, rupturing hearts and hopes, Fate blanks the disappointment in my chest with suffering, then slaps me right across the face with it.
YellowBella
#54. Once I was born, her hopes had turned and I had climbed up her life like a flower reaching for the sun
Dorothy Allison
#55. Then they were all standing and applauding, yeah, they were giving him a fucking standing O, and in their faces he saw what every poet or would-be poet hopes to see when he or she finished reading: the faces of people suddenly awakened from a dream brighter than any reality.
Stephen King
#56. I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship.
Michel Faber
#57. Place your hopes in the mercy of God and the merits of our Redeemer; say often, looking at the crucifix: There are centered all my hopes.
Paul Of The Cross
#58. The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.
Jefferson Davis
#59. When we look at something, we are often not aware of who is perceiving, and unaware of the mental-emotional filter created by past experiences, hopes and expectations.
Ilchi Lee
#60. Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.
Phil Ochs
#61. We shoved out many hopes and fears into their hands, believing those hands were strong because they had firm handshakes. They failed us, always. There was no way they could not fail us - they were human, and so were we.
Isaac Marion
#62. His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated.
Emily Giffin
#63. 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
#64. Nothing feels real, but that's not a problem because she still hopes that at some point she'll wake up and this will all have been a dream.
Lucy Dillon
#66. But I believed myself totally unfitted for the company of strangers. Such were my reflections as I commenced my journey; but as I proceeded, my spirits and hopes rose.
Mary Shelley
#67. This is the culmination of all my hopes, Gabriel. Julia reached out to him and he strained to catch her pinky finger with his own. This is my happy ending.
Sylvain Reynard
#68. He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.
Ludwig Von Mises
#69. And music, your music, it teases at my ear. I turn and it fades away and you're not here! Let hopes pass! Let dreams pass! Let them die! Without you, what are they for? I always feel no more than half-way real 'til I hear you sing once more!
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#70. One has a few moments that are tolerable
one breathes,as it were,again;one remembers things,but one hardly hopes.I hope for the New Age-that is all-which will cure all our woes,and give us new ones,and make us happy enough for death ...
Lytton Strachey
#71. That's the thing about wishes, though - they're just that. Hopes thrown out to the universe, swept away on a breeze and left up to fate.
Carmen Jenner
#72. I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.
Richard Rodriguez
#73. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
Samuel Johnson
#74. There is nothing like raising a child in a home filled with love and respect ... to watch them blossom as an adult, filled with hopes and dreams and good intentions. Dedicated to our son, my coauthor, J.R. Matheson. We wish you all the best Justin! Love you.
Lee Bice-Matheson
#75. A sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. It soon flies over the present failure, and begins to
Jane Austen
#76. I want to be here with her. I want to be the one who lives up to her hopes.
David Levithan
#77. Impertinent is a word which actually means not suitable to the circumstances, but most people use it to mean I am using a complicated word in hopes that it will make you stop talking ...
Lemony Snicket
#78. A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
Irvin S. Cobb
#79. We humans desperately seek stability in hopes, I think, that we can control our lives, though that isn't the way things work. Everything is in flux; we are dynamic beings born with expiration dates into an uncertain Universe.
Larry J. Dunlap
#80. All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.
Charles Dickens
#81. We all came to Seattle in hopes of building better lives. No one said we wouldn't have to struggle first.
Regina Scott
#82. I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations. - Two Kinds
Amy Tan
#83. Isn't that amazing? Here are all of these people, different in so many ways, yet united by their hopes and goals and dreams. This is how the world should be." The
Pat Williams
#84. For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.
Polybius
#85. I believe these connections are not the result of chance. They are the result of long cherished hopes, choices, and creation.
Ilchi Lee
#86. The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.
Leston Havens
#87. Falling asleep with hopes and wishes that I rarely get to hold in my hand for long ... go me. All I've got are memories and secrets.
Alyse M. Gardner
#88. Don't get your hopes up.
I needed someone today.
Darkness said you'd do.
Lisa Schroeder
#89. Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.
Vincent De Paul
#90. What they want can never work. Their dreams can never even get close to reality. Their hopes can never, ever be realized. It isn't humanly possible for liberalism to succeed.
Rush Limbaugh
#91. In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
#92. My gorgeous little rabbit," I say, in a voice that is low and husky with passion. "I may dominate you in the bedroom, Em, but you dominate my thoughts, my hopes and my dreams. I love you, Emily Jarman and I'm going to fall in love with you again and again, each and every day of our lives.
Nikki Sex
#93. Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
Arthur Helps
#94. The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open. The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of a new life.
Pope Benedict XVI
#95. An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into
conventional wisdom.
Steven D. Levitt
#96. Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone.
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
#97. He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#98. The supernova is enabling a deeper revolution that is just beginning, spurred by learning platforms such as Udacity, edX, and Coursera, that will change the very metabolism and shape of higher education and, one hopes, lift the adaptability line in the way that
Thomas L. Friedman
#99. The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
Gertrude Stein
#100. Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
Robert Browning
