Top 100 To Hope Quotes
#1. To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen.
Jerome Groopman
#2. Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always
this is duty.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#3. I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.
Orson Scott Card
#4. It taught me to hope," said he, "as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before." Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
#5. If your vision encourages and enables others to hope more, see more, act more, love more, and live more then you are a true pathfinder.
Debasish Mridha
#6. I like to hope that Rumi's poems, even in translation, carry the essence of the transforming friendship of Rumi and Shams, that the sun can reappear, whole and radiant in any one of us at any moment.
Rumi
#7. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.
Miranda July
#8. Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
Immanuel Kant
#10. Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle.
#11. Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put it's trust in life!
Joseph Conrad
#12. Every time I had dared to hope for something in my life, it seemed that fate, like a small, angry child, went out of its way to make sure I not only didn't get it but was instead rewarded with the exact opposite.
John Goode
#13. They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
Anthony Trollope
#14. To Hope
When by my solitary hearth I sit,
And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom;
When no fair dreams before my 'mind's eye' flit,
And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;
Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,
And wave thy silver pinions o'er my head.
John Keats
#15. Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe
Satish Kumar
#16. Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.
Christopher Hitchens
#17. So long as I have something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for, I shall be happy.
Og Mandino
#18. I know what it's like to be in the closet! I know what it's like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them ... so, I'm coming out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope.
Jason Alexander
#19. His voice was hesitant and colourless, as in those who hope for nothing because it's perfectly useless to hope.
Fernando Pessoa
#20. I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.
Amy Tan
#21. I get it now. It's hard to let someone find you in all the dark and twisty places inside, but eventually, you have to hope that they do, because that's the beginning of everything.
Julia Walton
#22. You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.
Lisa Guerrero
#23. Gifford Ulrich didn't know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn't sleep in alleys.
Dan Groat
#24. To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
Miguel De Cervantes
#25. It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.
William Dean Howells
#26. I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.
Will.i.am
#27. It seemed outrageous to hope that fertility, resources, time, desire, and love could all come together in the right way, and yet most women did eventually walk that path.
Hope Jahren
#28. When you think about something enough, you start dreaming about it. And when you dream about something enough, you just have to hope that it becomes a reality.
Jamie McGuire
#29. The day was getting more interesting by the minute. I just had to hope it was the sort of interesting we'd live to talk about later.
Mira Grant
#30. The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
Aga Khan IV
#31. Being a pessimist is just such a gloomy way of looking at things, so I have to hope for the best - life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't have hope. And I also do think that human beings often do do wonderful, correct, brilliant things. So, on balance, I'd like to be optimistic about the future.
Bill Bryson
#32. We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould
#33. It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#34. Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
John Ciardi
#35. Once you surrender to hope, its a long road back to reason. There was a certain tone of self-loathing in the way Crest said it.
Benjamin Wood
#36. But she'd learned instead to hope in the one Beacon that would always be there, no matter what darkness came her way.
Jody Hedlund
#37. Before he came to Alaka, he dared to hope that he was meant for something more. Now he dared to hope that he could shape that meaning for himself. All this time, he had expected that magic would stitch his future together. But all magic had done was show him how to stitch it together for himself.
Roshani Chokshi
#38. With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.
Lemony Snicket
#39. We are united to Him in darkness, because we have to hope.
Thomas Merton
#40. To hope is to feel the presence of the inner sun. The inner sun is; the outer sun becomes.
Sri Chinmoy
#41. Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
Washington Irving
#42. All men press, one way or another," she said with mock severity.
"They're still keeping to their book then?"
Denna's expression grew rueful and she sighed. "I used to hope they'd disregard the book with age. Instead I've found they've merely turned a page.
Patrick Rothfuss
#43. We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world.
Aml Ameen
#44. Sometimes people hold on to hope as if was their own skin. Without it, they feel would just fall into pieces.
Glenn Frank
#45. I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.
P.D. Ouspensky
#46. Madness it is to hope that human minds
can ever understand the Infinite
that comprehends Three Persons in One Being.
Be satisfied with quia unexplained,
O Human race! If you knew everything,
no need for Mary to have borne a son.
Dante Alighieri
#47. I feel worse than I have ever done before, because now I know that it is easier to take a country into war than to bring it to live at peace, and a country at war is a bitter place to live, a risky place to have daughters, and a dangerous place to hope for a son.
Philippa Gregory
#48. It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.
Mary Balogh
#49. When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.
Dean Koontz
#51. It was all right to hope and noble to strive, but in the end it was doom alone which would count.
Stephen King
#53. I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace.
Anthony Hopkins
#54. Hell is that state where one has ceased to hope.
A.J. Cronin
#55. Why weep when it takes less energy to laugh? Why frown when it takes less energy to smile? Why despair when it takes less energy to hope? Why fear when it takes less energy to love?
Matshona Dhliwayo
#56. I want to hope, to dream, to have faith again, but the soulless weight of reality keeps crushing me down.
Anonymous
#57. This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature . This idea . That to look at the things, to record the details, and to hope that in the information thus obtained, may lie a clue to one or another of a possible theoretical interpretation.
Richard P. Feynman
#58. This woman saw the gospel - that you're more wicked than you ever believed, but at the same time more loved and accepted than you ever dared to hope.
Timothy Keller
#59. I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.
Jerome Groopman
#60. We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes ... The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited.
Sidney Poitier
#61. We're all irrevocably trapped inside our own minds: just as it's impossible for anyone to truly know us, we can't begin to hope to know anyone else.
Abigail Haas
#62. She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope."
"Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the
only way to begin."
-Rohan to Win
Lisa Kleypas
#63. When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.
Darren Criss
#64. But he clung to hope, to faith in life, to the victory of the virtuous, to the defeat of evil.
Zane Grey
#66. Hope is never false. One's hopes may not be fulfilled, but that doesn't not mean it was wrong to hope
Jennifer Chiaverini
#67. No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.
Henry Ward Beecher
#68. When all you see is darkness, turn to hope, and your heart will see the light.
Milan Ljubincic
#70. A true leader inspires and empowers others to hope more, dream more, do more, and live more.
Debasish Mridha
#71. Noah released the raven and the raven returned. If I were
able to hope, I'd hope you would return to me.
Sylvain Reynard
#72. I called my wife into my office, because I needed to tell her that I had a 24-year-old son, although we have been married for 28 years. I had no idea what her reaction would be, but I had to hope for the best.
Shvonne Latrice
#73. I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him.
Dean Koontz
#74. What was it about relationships that made you feel so vulnerable? Oh, right. A relationship. In any relationship, you put yourself out there. You exposed all of your sensitive nerve endings and your heart and you just had to hope that you trusted the right person.
Courtney Cole
#75. One of the most powerful forces in the world is the will of men and women who believe in themselves, who dare to hope and aim high, who go confidently after the things they want from life.
Richard DeVos
#76. For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future.
Alison Gopnik
#77. To humanity, which sometimes seems to be lost and dominated by the power of evil, selfishness and fear, the risen Lord gives the gift of His love which forgives, reconciles and reopens the soul to hope.
Pope John Paul II
#78. Joy means holding on to hope in God regardless of the outcome. Declaring we will give up everything and entrust ourselves more fully and wholly to the One who holds all things together.
Margaret Feinberg
#79. Expect nothing and you don't need the courage to hope, nor the strength to withstand disappointment when nothing comes.
Glen Duncan
#80. They'd get that back; when children no longer lived in fear and privation, the ability to hope was one of the first things to return. From
Mercedes Lackey
#81. Find love, for love in a broken world will comfort you. Hold on to hope; it will sustain you. Have faith, for in the end it will save you.
Patrick Carman
#82. Don't confuse me with those who cling to hope. I enjoy describing how things are, I have no interest in how they 'ought to be.' And I certainly have no interest in fixing them. I sincerely believe that if you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem. My motto: Fuck Hope!
George Carlin
#83. You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.
Dick Van Dyke
#84. It is only the happy who are hard, Gilles. I think perhaps it is better for the world if - if one has a broken heart. One is quick to recognise it, elsewhere. And one has time to think about other people, if there is nothing left to hope for any more.
Helen Waddell
#85. Nothing is better than music... it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.
Nadia Boulanger
#86. If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then i should non deplore their lot but nothing, nothing.
Fredrika Bremer
#87. The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
Thomas Carlyle
#88. We don't know where Millie went, and we don't know if we'll see her again, but there's no reason not to hope. We don't know the answers, and maybe that's a nice thing.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#89. I continue to hope and believe that the best stories and photographs are yet to occur. My quest for them will certainly require that I keep my head up and my eyes and heart open as I walk down the street.
Peter Turnley
#90. Seven key abilities human beings need to effectively manage life: the ability to motivate ourselves, to persist against frustration, to delay gratification, to regulate moods, to hope, to empathize, and to control impulse. Many
Gavin De Becker
#91. Every day is a new day to hope, dream and try again.
Heather Wolf
#92. It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.
Henry Reed
#93. There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.
Michael Ian Black
#94. From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'
Owain Yeoman
#95. Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.
Mark Helprin
#96. In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground to hope-nothing of man.
Calvin Coolidge
#97. we all do what we think is best. Sometimes we make terrible mistakes, sometimes we do the right thing. Sometimes we never know. We just have to hope
Jennifer McMahon
#98. I used to think that one day I should write a really great novel, but I've long ceased even to hope for that. All I want people to say is that I do my best. I do work. I never let anything slipshod get past me. I think I can tell a good story and I can create characters that ring true.
W. Somerset Maugham
#99. What is man?
Hope turned to dust.
No.
What is man?
Dust turned to hope.
Elie Wiesel
#100. Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.
Horace
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