Hope Quotes

“There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.”

-- Thomas Frank

“Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.”

-- Mahalia Jackson

“The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.”

-- Thomas Huxley

“I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.”

-- Jennifer Hudson

“I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.”

-- Joel Madden

“I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.”

-- Steve Yzerman

“Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.”

-- Michelangelo

“Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.”

-- Daniel Day-Lewis

“The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.”

-- Brooke Shields

“Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.”

-- Sarah Ban Breathnach