"Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness."
Read quote
4 likes
Hopeful quotes
Hopeful
344 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Hopeful
Browse quotes that often appear alongside hopeful — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Hopeful quotes (page 4 of 18)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Hopes, dreams, faith and a sense of mission enable us to open up our lives."
Read quote
3 likes
"Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future."
Read quote
3 likes
"Building on our Young South-east Asian Leaders Initiative, I'm hopeful that we can continue expand the ties and cooperation between our young people and students."
Read quote
3 likes
"By so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we first got here. And I'm hopeful we'll build on the progress we've made in the years to come."
Read quote
3 likes
"I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings."
Read quote
3 likes
"Anyone who deals with the climate crisis has an internal dialogue between hope and despair, because the challenge is so huge and the danger is so great and the stakes are so high. But I have always resolved that in favour of hope, and actually I'm more hopeful now than I was a decade ago when the solutions were visible on the horizon, but you had to seek reassurance that the technology experts that they're coming, they'll be here."
Read quote
3 likes
"I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers. I'm hopeful that new business models will emerge that allow the newspaper culture to genuinely thrive in the digital age."
Read quote
3 likes
"It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet."
Read quote
3 likes
"R&D generally has been a bipartisan thing, because in the IT space, in the medical space, the U.S., the benefits to ourselves and the world and our economy have been very, very clear. I'm hopeful we can make a very strong case there. Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time."
Read quote
3 likes
"I have failed at unscripted television for five years now, so I am hopeful I can break that trend and get a good unscripted show on the air."
Read quote
3 likes
"A lot of stuff is dark in a way, but unless you're really looking at a situation for what it actually is, it's hard to be hopeful - or meaningless to be hopeful about it unless it's actually based in a real possibility."
Read quote
3 likes
"A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet."
Read quote
3 likes
"I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature."
Read quote
3 likes
"I'm not hopeful about America, and I'm not hopeful about the world, no. Life goes on and, for those of us who are lucky, there's a great deal to enjoy in it. But will things get better for most people? I don't know. I don't see the evidence."
Read quote
3 likes
"I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace."
Read quote
3 likes
"When I receive a new novel from a hopeful publisher - "hoping that I like the book as much as he does" - I check first of all how much dialog there is, and if it looks too abundant or too sustained, I shut the book with a bang."
Read quote
3 likes
"To hope is to feel the presence of the inner sun. The inner sun is; the outer sun becomes."
Read quote
3 likes
"Hope is man's inner effort."
Read quote
3 likes
"Hope is man's preparation for the unknown."
Read quote
3 likes