Hopeful Quotes

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.

Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well.

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

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.

I'm a hopeful cynic.

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

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.

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

I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that.

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

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

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.

The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

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.

We're trying to tell a very full story of 'Nashville' and these characters in Nashville, and I'm really hopeful that we're going to be able to do something as innovative as 'American Horror Story' and 'Friday Night Lights.' And I think so far, we're on the right path for that.

The Internet is a game changer. I'm hopeful I can make a contribution by providing a way to learn about the game of golf free of charge.