1. Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. - James Baldwin 

2. Man is not a machine that can be remodeled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. - Carl Jung 

3. The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on. - Warren Buffett 

4. Among physicists, I'm respected I hope. - Stephen Hawking 

5. I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people. - Stephen Hawking 

6. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. - Napoleon Hill 

7. I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. - Emily Dickinson 

8. For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. - T. S. Eliot 

9. We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope. - Epictetus 

10. To me, we're marketing hope. - Joel Osteen 

11. I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I'm not leading them to some false God or something like that. - Joel Osteen 

12. I always try to put a seed of hope into people's hearts. I'm not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith. - Joel Osteen 

13. I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged - 'There's nothing good in my future' - I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope. - Joel Osteen 

14. When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe. - Joel Osteen 

15. I do know this... I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ. - Joel Osteen 

16. At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't. - Rodney Dangerfield 

17. War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. - Niccolo Machiavelli 

18. China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them. - Bill Gates 

19. The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying. - Bill Gates

 20. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently? - Bill Gates 

21. The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue. - Dolly Parton 

22. I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!' - Dolly Parton 

23. I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100. - Dolly Parton 

24. I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children. - Dolly Parton 

25. If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. - Dwight D. Eisenhower 

26. Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well. - Dwight D. Eisenhower 

27. I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away. - Dalai Lama 

28. When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way. - Dalai Lama

29. My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding. - Dalai Lama 

30. I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in. - Lou Holtz 

31. My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for. - Lou Holtz 

32. I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams. - Les Brown 

33. I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams. - Nipsey Hussle 

34. You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope. - Thich Nhat Hanh 

35. You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace. - Thich Nhat Hanh 

36. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope. - Thich Nhat Hanh

37. I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. - George Washington 

38. My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved. - Charles Spurgeon 

39. 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none. - Charles Spurgeon 

40. It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do. - Charles Spurgeon 

41. As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking. - Thomas Sowell 

42. Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. - Robert Browning 

43. That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for my education. - Michelle Obama 

44. I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school. - Michelle Obama 

45. I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system. - Noam Chomsky

46. The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years. - Noam Chomsky 

47. Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions. - Noam Chomsky 

48. Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution. - Noam Chomsky 

49. Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections. - Noam Chomsky 

50. Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place. - Colin Powell 

51. 'Hope and change' has become a cliché in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed. - Billy Graham 

52. Everywhere I go I find that people... both leaders and individuals... are asking one basic question, 'Is there any hope for the future?' My answer is the same, 'Yes, through Jesus Christ.' - Billy Graham 

53. Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear. - Billy Graham 

54. The Bible says that as Christians we don't grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven - but we still grieve. - Billy Graham 

55. I haven't written my own epitaph, and I'm not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served. - Billy Graham 

56. I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair. - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 

57. Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. - Marcus Tullius Cicero 

58. While there's life, there's hope. - Marcus Tullius Cicero 

59. For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home. - LeBron James 

60. Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. - William Butler Yeats 

61. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow. - Ruth Bader Ginsburg 

62. I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law. - Ruth Bader Ginsburg 

63. When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. - Ayn Rand 

64. I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active. - Jane Goodall

 65. I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things. - Jane Goodall 

66. The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me. - Jackie Joyner-Kersee 

67. My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help. - Jackie Joyner-Kersee 

68. The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation. - Jackie Joyner-Kersee 

69. There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. - George Eliot

70. But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. - George Eliot 

71. Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. - Thomas Aquinas 

72. All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? - Immanuel Kant 

73. The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

74. Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. - Desmond Tutu 

75. In the long run, a flexible sentencing procedure which works to rehabilitate offenders offers the best hope in the majority of cases in the Federal courts. - Robert Kennedy 

76. Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades - not of weeks. Its means of aggression consist not only of nuclear weapons and missiles with enormous boosters, and not only of spies, agents and terrorists, but of great masses of men and women, deluded by a common ideology which inspires them with a false hope. - Robert Kennedy 

77. 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 

78. I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. - F. Scott Fitzgerald 

79. Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 

80. There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell. - Joyce Meyer 

81. Over the years I've learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life. - Joyce Meyer 

82. Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing. - Joyce Meyer 

83. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. - Erma Bombeck 

84. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie

 85. I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life. - Sonia Sotomayor 

86. I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. - Sonia Sotomayor 

87. My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage. - Sonia Sotomayor 

88. So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in. - Sonia Sotomayor 

89. The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. - Samuel Johnson 

90. We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. - Samuel Johnson 

91. The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. - Samuel Johnson

92. What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. - Samuel Johnson 

93. You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. - Stephen King 

94. Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. - William Wordsworth 

95. Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. - Hunter S. Thompson 

96. This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. - Lord Byron 

97. But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. - Lord Byron

98. The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. - Frank Lloyd Wright 

99. When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. - John Adams 

100. Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. - John Adams