Quotes About Hoping For The Best

#1. No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

Jodi Picoult

#2. Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win!
live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Jerry Garcia

#3. Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.

Christopher Walken

#4. We are so trained into believing the worst, into thinking some people are beyond hope. What if it's our lack of belief that makes people hopeless? What if we can change the world just by hoping for the best instead of settling for the worst?

Marilyn Grey

#5. Hoping for the best is hoping nothing happens

Taking Back Sunday

#6. Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst.

Tess Gerritsen

#7. There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

Stephen King

#8. Hoping for the best, like hoping for a bat to obey your orders, almost always leads to disappointment.

Lemony Snicket

#9. If you are anticipating the worst while hoping for the best, you will get the worst. The things that happen to you are in direct accordance with the things wherein you place your faith. Believe you are licked - and you are.

Harold Sherman

#10. There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight.

Gray Davis

#11. Sometimes you didn't know what you were after, I thought. Maybe there was a speck on the horizon and you followed it, hoping for the best.

Megan Mayhew Bergman

#12. We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

Fred Thompson

#13. If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?"
"Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.

Gena Showalter

#14. They believe that life is filled with a bunch of choices and we just have to pick good, better, or best. We can settle for good, or we can wait around hoping for the best and end up single until we're fifty.

Marilyn Grey

#15. Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

Jerry Garcia

#16. Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

Maya Angelou

#17. A little secret about actors is that we never think we do a great job in auditions. We kind of just go in and do our work and leave sort of hoping for the best. It's an interesting dynamic - acting is such an interesting job. You never quite know how well you do.

Sufe Bradshaw

#18. The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.

Michael Ignatieff

#19. If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.

E. Lockhart

#20. Hope for the best and work for it.

Deval Patrick

#21. The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#22. I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Alexander Pope

#23. Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie.

Erik Naggum

#24. Hope for the best and make peace with the rest.

Noah

#25. Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.

Damon Lindelof

#26. You just make the best movie you can and hope for the best, because you don't have any control over what happens with the movie, whether the movie is misinterpreted.

Gregg Araki

#27. All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.

Mickey Rourke

#28. My best advice is just to show up and be truthful. Be the kind of friend you are hoping for.

Jen Hatmaker

#29. I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.

Todd Solondz

#30. I live my life with love. I live my life with compassion. I live my life hoping the best for absolutely everyone, no matter how they feel about me. And when you live that way, it's amazing how beautiful every day can be.

Anne Hathaway

#31. Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Matthew Henry

#32. Take a shot of vodka and hope for the best.

Nathan Lane

#33. He who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.

Soren Kierkegaard

#34. Hope and be happy that all's for the best!

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#35. My women students openly admit that they dress for interviews like dates, hoping to look their best: makeup, high heels, a well-fitting suit that shows off their figure. And I always tell them to make sure to wear a shirt under the suit jacket. Form fitting, yes. Cleavage, no.

Susan Estrich

#36. First of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.

Tim Burton

#37. I was never anyone's first priority. Never the one who had someone looking out for me. I was hoping having a mate would get me that. I'm sorry I was under that misconception. I'll do my best to leave you alone from now on.

Alyssa Brandon

#38. Having failed to conquer myself, my best hope now is to arrange an alliance with myself.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#39. Fate's funny like that, sticking her hand into places that at the time you want to curse her for - then, years later, you just want to nod and wink at her as you move into that sweet spot you've been hoping for all those years.

A. Wilding Wells

#40. Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best.

Joan Dye Gussow

#41. I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.

Jonathan Tropper

#42. When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.

George W. Bush

#43. During my senior year, there were NBA scouts at my games. At some point, I guess, I started hoping I'd get drafted by a team where there would be a great situation for me. As it turned out, Portland was the best situation for me.

Terry Porter