Hope Quotes
“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
“I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.”
-- Dean Koontz
“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.”
-- Desmond Tutu
“It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.”
-- Jonathan Carroll
“While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.”
-- Bryant H. McGill
“My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.”
-- Daniel Goleman
“You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.”
-- Michelle Obama
“The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.”
-- Jim DeMint
“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”
-- John Quincy Adams
“Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.”
-- King Abdullah II
“I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.”
-- Kesha
“That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.”
-- Tom Hanks
“The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.”
-- Henry Louis Gates
“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 mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.”
-- Shaun White