Hopeful Quotes

You know, I think when you are unemployed, especially for a long time, it's hard to be inspired or hopeful almost about anything. So it's tough, especially when there has been such gridlock here in D.C. You know, when we are fighting and can't get anything done, whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, no one wins.

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.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

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

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

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

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

I'm a hopeful cynic.

I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic.

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

Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

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

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

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.

Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility.

You have to be hopeful that people will be more educated in how they buy things, and hopefully more luxury brands will start to think that way on a longer-term basis.

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

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

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

We are hopeful about the opportunities ahead, and stand ready to join this President in an open and honest dialogue about improving the state of our union for all Americans not the select few.

So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

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.

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.