Top Hopeful Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Hopeful quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Lucy Grealy
All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.
- Lucy Grealy
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Image of Joan D. Chittister
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.
- Joan D. Chittister
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Image of Henry L. Stimson
Hope is the mainspring of life.
- Henry L. Stimson
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Image of Jim Wallis
It's hope as a decision that makes change possible.
- Jim Wallis
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Image of Cory Booker
When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.
- Cory Booker
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Image of Irwin Shaw
I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young
- Irwin Shaw
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Image of Samantha Hunt
I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is terrible, there's somewhere else hopeful to look.
- Samantha Hunt
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Image of Alvin Plantinga
Things don't look hopeful for Darwinian naturalists.
- Alvin Plantinga
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Image of Mary Livermore
Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.
- Mary Livermore
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Image of James Keller
Hope discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot.
- James Keller
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Image of O. Carl Simonton
In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.
- O. Carl Simonton
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Image of William H. Hastie
Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.
- William H. Hastie
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Image of Ralph Waldo Trine
A mind always hopeful, confident, courageous, and determined on its set purpose, and keeping itself to that purpose, attracts to itself out of the elements things and powers favourable to that purpose.
- Ralph Waldo Trine
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Image of Suzanne Collins
But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.
- Suzanne Collins
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Image of Stephen Burt
Good poems do a lot of things at once. Often, by doing so, they encourage us to acknowledge mixed and incompatible feelings. Good poems, like good works of history, resist monocausal explanations for anything. There's not one reason why I am angry or excited or hopeful, when I feel those things. And there's not one reason why President Obama won two elections. And there's not one reason why Donald Trump won the most recent presidential election.
- Stephen Burt
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Image of Ross Spears
How could you not be hopeful if you've got a tree around?
- Ross Spears
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Image of Piers Anthony
Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!
- Piers Anthony
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Image of Mark Rosenker
The increase in accidents is disappointing. But the decrease in total fatalities is a hopeful sign.
- Mark Rosenker
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Image of Alison Hawthorne Deming
What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a moral decision to be hopeful.
- Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Image of Julie Mehretu
The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.
- Julie Mehretu
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Image of Nick Hornby
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.
- Nick Hornby
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Image of Claude M. Bristol
In this life, anything can happen - and what can help bring it to pass is Hope
- Claude M. Bristol
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Image of Aftab Alam
Hopeless are those who suffers the curse of heaven-so be hopeful
- Aftab Alam
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Image of Stephen King
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
- Stephen King
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Image of Matt Blaze
If we try to prohibit encryption or discourage it or make it more difficult to use, we're going to suffer the consequences that will be far reaching and very difficult to reverse, and we seem to have realized that in the wake of the September 11th attacks. To the extent there is any reason to be hopeful, perhaps that's where we'll end up here.
- Matt Blaze
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Image of Harriet Martineau
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.
- Harriet Martineau
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Image of Jason Rezaian
I'm a very hopeful person.
- Jason Rezaian
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Image of Marianne Williamson
If a person is fearful, it is a fearful time. If a person is hopeful, it's a hopeful time. If you look at world events one way, fear is reasonable. If you look at the world another way, hope is justified.
- Marianne Williamson
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Image of Bob Goff
There's a lot to be concerned about; there's more to be hopeful for.
- Bob Goff
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Image of Michael Pollan
I'm very hopeful that we'll see some change in our food system. I don't know how far we'll go, or how quickly we'll get there, but there is no question that a significant percentage of the American public is dissatisfied with the food system.
- Michael Pollan
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Image of Alain de Botton
We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
- Alain de Botton
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Image of Barbara Boxer
I'm hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement.
- Barbara Boxer
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Image of Jeremy Rifkin
We are hopeful that you will want to visit our planet in the near future. We are in the process of restoring our environment to its original grandeur, and hope to have completed the task before your RSVP.
- Jeremy Rifkin
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Image of Maya Banks
Love made her patient. It made her hopeful.
- Maya Banks
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Image of Arsene Wenger
I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.
- Arsene Wenger
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Image of Anthony Bourdain
I'm certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime, or heard in my lifetime. But, look, I'm a romantic. I'm hopeful.
- Anthony Bourdain
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Image of Studs Terkel
I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
- Studs Terkel
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Image of Bill Nye
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned.
- Bill Nye
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Image of Gretchen Rubin
If you want to feel safe, healthy, and hopeful, try to act as if you did feel that way. "Fake it 'till you feel it." maybe start with health -- try to walk energetically, speak energetically, do physical things.
- Gretchen Rubin
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Image of Michel de Montaigne
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Image of Rumi
The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.
- Rumi
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Image of May Sarton
when I am working I immediately feel hopeful.
- May Sarton
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Image of Anne Carson
Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.
- Anne Carson
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Image of John Armstrong
Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.
- John Armstrong
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Image of Mairead Corrigan
I am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.
- Mairead Corrigan
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Image of Dan Chaon
I feel like I go back and forth between being fairly fatalistic and really more hopeful about the possibilities of things changing. And will see how that goes in this election cycle. That will probably strongly affect how fatalistic I am.
- Dan Chaon
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Image of Sri Chinmoy
To hope is to feel the presence of the inner sun. The inner sun is; the outer sun becomes.
- Sri Chinmoy
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Image of Winston Churchill
A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.
- Winston Churchill
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Image of Stephen Colbert
Cynicism is an enormous problem. I'm actually a hopeful person. But the way to stay hopeful is to acknowledge and to not accept what is absolutely amoral, mentally ill behavior as normal.
- Stephen Colbert
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Image of George Stephanopoulos
The Republican leadership is quite hopeful at this time that they will have wide latitude. [Donald] Trump is a big visionary guy, not a detail guy, obviously. They are preparing to charge ahead with a Republican, a conservative agenda that Paul Ryan talked about a lot on the campaign trail.
- George Stephanopoulos
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