Quotes about Hope

“Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.”

“Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future.”

“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”

“The Mets represent life and the reality of life, the winning, the losing, the hope, the faith. You stick with them through the ups and the downs, the heartbreaks. Every year you always have hope. You always have faith, even when they break your heart. You get mad, but you stick with them. They're humbling.”

“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”

“I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.”

“When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.”

“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.”

“I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.”

“You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.”

“Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.”

“When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.”

“Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.”

“Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.”

“As we wander, grieving, in yet another dark moment, amid our pain we must struggle to remember the redemptive power of love and hope.”

“I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope.”

“You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.”

“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.”

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

“Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.”

“When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.”