Hopes Quotes
Sad Quotes about Hopes

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation
of confusion, misery and death...
I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
- Anne Frank

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron

In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank

Just as in the comedies, a person who is in love
with the idea of love sees prospective partners
through the lens of idealism.
The reaction is, "This must be the one.
They are so perfect - the match of my dreams."
Is that person they just met a perfect match?
It's unlikely their friends think so.
So what happened? That person with the cute smile
was not much more than a mirror for the hopes and dreams
of the one in love with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations,
but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,
but with what it is still possible for you to do.
- Pope John XXIII

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
It is not proud. It does not dishonor others,
It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
- Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)

When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield

"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
- Thomas Fuller

Great hopes make great men.
- Thomas Fuller

O human beauty, what a dream art thou,
that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
- Barry Cornwall

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings
that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
- Jacques Barzun

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
- Gore Vidal

Conversations with God are very different
from the usual nature of prayer.
Prayers are commonly only in one direction -
the one praying speaks and hopes God is listening.
Prayers also tend to focus on asking
for specific things or outcomes one wants,
rather than seeking to better understand the mind of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust;
its sole ammunition,
the collective hopes of our society.
- Irving R. Kaufman

I have no money, no resources, no hopes.
I am the happiest man alive.
- Henry Miller

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis,
which is to say, a nothingness.
Here and now is what we must contend with.
- Angela Carter

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier ...
a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils -
a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
- John F. Kennedy

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
- Lillian Hellman

Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute
a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain
their morale and their hopes.
- George Carman

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who
should entertain an idea of committing suicide,
and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts,
the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,
Whose charms were broken if revealed.
- Charlotte Bronte

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power,
but you never know.
- Chris Frantz

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die,
of course.
But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live.
One is a realist if one hopes.
- Studs Terkel

Even in relationships, I don't get my hopes up or anything,
especially not right now because I know I'm young and
I've got plenty of time later in the future.
- Christina Milian

The bold enterprises are the successful ones.
Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
- Rutherford B. Hayes

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish
desire to voice all the joys and sorrows,
the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro,
in classic musical form.
- James Weldon Johnson

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth.
Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay,
it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
- Maurice Chevalier

It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes
of my ever walking again.
- Marie Windsor

He that hopes no good fears no ill.
- Thomas Fuller

The pause between the errors and trials of the day
and the hopes of the night.
- Herbert Hoover

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run,
In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
- William Congreve

Hopes are like hair ornaments.
Girls want to wear too many of them.
When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
- Arthur Golden

Look at the United States today.
We have made mistakes in the past.
We have had shortcomings.
We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.
- Henry Cabot Lodge

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided
for the souls of men I do not know,
I cannot prove.
But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that,
if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams,
it will transcend them.
- Henry Norris Russell

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my
countrymen comes natural to me;
and in the open field of invention I am not without
hopes of giving them pleasure.
- Thomas Edward Brown

The problem with most people is that they think with
their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
- Walter Duranty

Jazz to me is a living music.
It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings,
the dreams, hopes, of the people.
- Dexter Gordon

My work is to reach people with ideas,
hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight,
and revelation.
That's what an actor wants to do.
- John Astin

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once,
by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
- Marguerite de Valois

I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing.
But now I have hopes and I can be anything.
Tomorrow I might be naked with a feather boa,
who knows?
- Geri Halliwell

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief,
the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
- Euripedes

When you please others in hopes of being accepted,
you lose you self-worth in the process.
- Dave Pelzer

Instead of sailing off into the sunset,
he hopes to sail into the next century.
- Dave Anderson

I do not give money for just mere hopes.
- Terence

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes;
adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
- Francis Bacon

One must always hope when one is desperate,
and doubt when one hopes.
- Gustave Flaubert

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations
and socialism by its hopes and aspirations;
capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
- Sidney Hook

With the advent of spring and beginning of the new
harvest season the creators of abundance,
our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.
- Islom Karimov

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

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.
- Stephan Jenkins

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and
misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what
you really want or what you even really need.
- Tracy Chapman

Our analysis of truth and falsehood,
or of the nature of judgment,
is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
- Charles D. Broad

I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears.
- Stephan Jenkins

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has,
is courage in a man.
- Euripides

Hope...
is the companion of power, and the mother of success;
for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
- Samuel Smiles

The trouble with most people is that they think with
their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
- Will Durant

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts,
hopes and aspirations of ordinary people.
It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens
further still the democratic deficit.
- Nigel Farage

The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes.
- John Nelson Darby

I will vote my hopes and not my fears.
- Herb Kohl

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions,
their insecurities, people's distress,
and their hopes and dreams.
- Princess Diana

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything
from the uncertain events of the future.
- Anatole France

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.
- Tia Carrere

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but
we never doubt that the U.S.
has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
- Ferdinand Mount

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by
their hopes and by their attractions,
appear to be good-natured.
- Samuel Richardson

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard;
if a writer,
to be read.
He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.
- Samuel E. Morison

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
- Thomas Carlyle