Hopeful Quotes

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin

Lonely, Adventure, Gentleman

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Heart, Left, Behind

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.
Joel Osteen

Positive, Dad, Him

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
Jack Layton

Love, Change, Hope

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
Bob Hope

Laugh, Almost, Seen

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George Eliot

Handsome, Full, Eggs

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
Martha Beck

Fear, Thinking, Zone

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Age, Heart, Old

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
Amelia Barr

Found, Ready, Inevitable

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Young, Old, Sometimes

People want to feel hopeful.
Michelle Obama

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
George W. Bush

Success, Hope, Failure

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
Arthur C. Clarke

Fact, Wave, Symbolism

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Charles Horton Cooley

Work, Mind, Tired

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Young, Old, Sometimes

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Young, Old, Sometimes

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
Paul Simon

Romantic, Sound, Train

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
Joe Biden

Hope, Middle, East

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
Barbara Kingsolver

Life, Time, After

I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.
Sean Connery

Equality, Within, Distance

Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.
Bryan Cranston

Time, Start, Project

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!
Mindy Kaling

Work, Romantic, Hurt

I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.
Selma Blair

Side, Manic, Darker

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.
Dave Eggers

Far, Trusting, Mum

What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
Brad Henry

Love, Faith, Family

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.
David Friedman

Person, Through, Songs

As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
Eddie Vedder

Young, Far, Used

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
Irwin Shaw

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
Karl Rove

Marriage, Society, Important

Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.
Carl Hiaasen

Future, Today, Before

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