Hope Quotes

If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.

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.

Optimism is inevitably the last hope of the defeated.

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

God, I hope she is found alive.

You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.

The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come.

Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.