Hopeful Quotes

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.

Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.

The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.

Hope will never be silent.

War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?

And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

I don't have any faith, but I have a lot of hope, and I have a lot of dreams of what we could do with our intelligence if we had the will and the leadership and the understanding of how we could take all of our intelligence and our resources and create a world for our kids that is hopeful.

I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming.

In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and respect and of feeling at one with it. The other attitude which is the one our society is based on is devastating and it is killing the earth and it is killing us too.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.

As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.

Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.

It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.

I feel like there's a moment, in every young girl's life, whether it happens with your family, or a tragedy or death in your family, or a relationship, where there's a turning point where you go from extremely hopeful and cheery to wondering whether you are okay with where you are. That's always awkward.

You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.

No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government Always hopeful yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is.

I feel the denial of gay marriage sends a prejudice message. Our youth deserve a fair and hopeful future with government that values us equally.

The power of growth, of improvement, the power to overcome all stagnation and break through every obstacle and transform a barren wasteland into a verdant field - that unstoppable power of hope resides right within your own heart. It wells up from the rich earth of your innermost being when you face the future without doubt or fear: "I can do more. I can grow. I can become a bigger and better human being."

Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.

I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely 'normal' life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more - much, much more.

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.

The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around. Cynicism is paralyzing, while the naïve person tries what the cynic says is impossible and sometimes succeeds.