Hope Quotes

“I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.”

-- P. J. Harvey

“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

“There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.”

-- Cat Stevens

“Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.”

-- Loretta Lynn

“Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.”

-- Yoshio Taniguchi

“Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.”

-- Mike Huckabee

“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.”

-- Vincent McNabb

“I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.”

-- Rene Descartes

“Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.”

-- Ed Bradley

“The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.”

-- Thabo Mbeki