Quotes for Hope

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Kenneth Branagh

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

Franz Schubert

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 am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.

Miley Cyrus

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Walt Disney

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

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

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

Napoleon Hill

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Walt Disney

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

Christopher Reeve

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

Dalai Lama

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

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Alexander Hamilton

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

My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.

Malala Yousafzai

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