1. 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
2. Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. - Lillian Hellman
3. I always believe things are going to work out. - Francoise Sagan
4. At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. - Ivan Illich
5. We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. - Ivan Illich
6. Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. - Evan Esar
7. Hope is a talent like any other. - Storm Jameson
8. When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. - Charles L. Allen
9. At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about. - Janis Ian
10. There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. - Anwar Sadat
11. You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. - Elizabeth Edwards
12. It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations. - Danny Boyle
13. How disappointment tracks the steps of hope. - Letitia Elizabeth Landon
14. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller
15. All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. - Winston Churchill
16. Where there is no vision, there is no hope. - George Washington Carver
17. A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. - Brad Henry
18. Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.' - Alfred Lord Tennyson
19. You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. - Marie Curie
20. To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. - Wendell Berry
21. I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. - Walt Disney
22. The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. - Edgar Allan Poe
23. Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. - Albert Camus
24. He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. - Albert Camus
25. Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. - Leonardo da Vinci
26. I am not skilled enough or energetic enough to craft a persona. I just have to be who I am and hope people like it. - Pete Buttigieg
27. I hope that teachings about inclusion and love win out over what I personally consider to be a handful of scriptures that reflect the moral expectations of the era in which they were recorded. - Pete Buttigieg
28. What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope? - Immanuel Kant
29. People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. - Edmund Burke
30. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. - Robert Kennedy
31. I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God. - Robert E. Lee
32. 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
33. Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. - John Ruskin
34. You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do. - Fran Lebowitz
35. Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. - Ambrose Bierce
36. The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love. - Ellen G. White
37. I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity. - Louis Farrakhan
38. We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor. - Ezra Taft Benson
39. I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make. - Dave Matthews
40. I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work. - Frank Ocean
41. I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures. - Tim Berners-Lee
42. If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright
43. Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation. - Jane Addams
44. I always say to myself that if I can make a movie that makes a kid smile or gives them some hope or something to get excited about, then I'm applying myself in the best way that I can. I don't think that just goes for kids. I think that it goes for adults, as well, and for families. - Nicolas Cage
45. When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire. - Whoopi Goldberg
46. This country gave us hope. This country allowed for us to develop our own identity and to create our own home. And we should not look down on the next person that is trying to do that. - Ilhan Omar
47. Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent. - Bryant H. McGill
48. My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. - Annie Leibovitz
49. Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. - Bradley Whitford
50. We are a G20 country. One of the biggest world economies. We're in the middle of three continents. Changing Saudi Arabia for the better means helping the region and changing the world. So this is what we are trying to do here. And we hope we get support from everyone. - Mohammad bin Salman
51. Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life. - Mandy Moore
52. There's something else that makes a woman interesting, something beyond being young or being old. And I'm going to find out what that something else is before I die, I hope. - Peter Lindbergh
53. Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business. - Sammy Sosa
54. I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records. - Drew Brees
55. Who would want one's children growing up buying things like bitcoin? I hope to God my family doesn't buy it. It's noxious poison. - Charlie Munger
56. I've said to people before that I'm going to do my very best to make it, and I'm not going to give up. And that's true. But I might not make it. And if I don't make it, the Marathon of Hope better continue. - Terry Fox
57. I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox. - Edward Jenner
58. I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind. - Edward Jenner
59. We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration. - James Larkin
60. This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. - Oscar Wilde
61. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. - Oscar Wilde
62. My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. - Abraham Lincoln
63. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. - Abraham Lincoln
64. Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. - Abraham Lincoln
65. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. - Abraham Lincoln
66. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. - Albert Einstein
67. Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
68. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. - Maya Angelou
69. I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it. - Maya Angelou
70. The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes. - Maya Angelou
71. If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart. - Maya Angelou
72. I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it. - Maya Angelou
73. Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. - William Shakespeare
74. People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today. - Zig Ziglar
75. What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope. - Mahatma Gandhi
76. The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil. - Ronald Reagan
77. Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable. - Ronald Reagan
78. Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram. - Steven Wright
79. The Pope, I hope, can only be scared by God. - Donald Trump
80. I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant. - John F. Kennedy
81. Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom. - John F. Kennedy
82. On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future. - Barack Obama
83. I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. - Ernest Hemingway
84. My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. - Thomas Jefferson
85. I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. - Thomas Jefferson
86. I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. - Thomas Jefferson
87. One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. - Thomas Jefferson
88. I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back. - Steve Jobs
89. I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude. - Michael Jordan
90. The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there. - Joe Biden
91. There used to be an old bad joke. I hope it's not so much a good joke anymore. 'Everybody's from Scranton; no one's in Scranton.' - Joe Biden
92. There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
93. Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
94. I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse. - Walt Disney
95. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. - Nelson Mandela
96. Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. - Nelson Mandela
97. Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality. - Nelson Mandela
98. A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte
99. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. - Henry Ford
100. Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again. - Muhammad Ali
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