Quotes for Hope

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Vaclav Havel

Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.

Max Weber

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

Christopher Reeve

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Norman Cousins

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.

George Clooney

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

James Baldwin

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Dalai Lama

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later.

Kenneth Branagh

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Lillian Hellman

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Samuel Smiles

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Norman Cousins

My mother-in-law said, 'One day I will dance on your grave.' I said 'I hope you do; I will be buried at sea.'

Les Dawson

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Kofi Annan

Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill

Where I am today... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.

Demi Lovato

We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!

Sam Houston