Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it’s just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

I still go up my 44 stairs two at a time, but that is in hopes of dropping dead at the top.

Hope lies to mortals
And most believe her,
But man’s deceiver
Was never mine.

We for a certainty are not the first
Have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled
Their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed
Whatever brute and blackguard made the world.

Let’s not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let’s give importance to the real democracy that’s constructed on a day-to-day basis. That’s my hopeful perspective on it.

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

In America, immigration is the story of hope and achievement, of youth, of freedom, of creation. But all entrances on one stage are exits elsewhere

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

We’re hopeful that it’s moving in the right direction, it’s still too early to tell.

In hopes, you’re on the other side talking to me, too Or am I a fool who sits alone talking to the moon?

I have a few tricks and dribbles which I use a lot and when I am playing well, it is natural that they become easier. But the tricks I use are the ones that will hopefully benefit the team. What I do as an individual player is only important if it helps the team to win. That is the most important thing.

The kid makes you sick. He looks the part, he walks the part, he is the part. He’s six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking – he’s got to have something wrong with him….Hopefully he’s hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better!

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

The shortest way to drive yourself mad is to refuse to be swayed by hope or fear

I feel I am privileged to express hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world, that we shall abolish wars and settle all international differences at the conference table, and that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs before they abolish us. The future of the modern world demands modern thinking. Therefore, let us use the full force of our intelligence instead of obsolete homicidal methods in settling our international differences.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Without Christ there is no hope.

We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.

Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.

Never,” said my aunt, “be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found, given by experience.

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom.

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind.

Today, people struggle to find what’s real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.

It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don’t ask for that. All I shall do is my best – and hope.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces – and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient’s hopes are the physician’s secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

Hope is a waking dream

I look forward to hopefully learning to give some of the love and forgiveness that I’ve given away so frivolously and easily to men in the past to myself, hopefully, this year

You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast

Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes

After the rain cometh the fair weather

Honesty is the best policy

I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting.

The tyrant is a child of Pride who drinks from his sickening cup recklessness and vanity, until from his high crest headlong he plummets to the dust of hope

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.”

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

I just want to keep doing what I’m doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on

If we want maturity, we have to be mature. If we want a nation that feels hopeful, then we have to speak in hopeful terms… We have to model what we want.

I’m always striving for greatness

I have never doubted myself even if others did, I always believed I could get to where I am today and thank God this came true.

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.