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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Tom Bodett on hope

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
William McKinley on hope

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
Cat Stevens on hope

'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
Cat Stevens on hope

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
Ivan Illich on hope

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.
Hugh Jackman on hope

I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.
Shia LaBeouf on hope

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
Charles Ives on hope

I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.
Benjamin Day on hope

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
Pearl S. Buck on hope

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
Emile M. Cioran on hope

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran on hope

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
Maynard James Keenan on hope

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.
Marco Rubio on hope

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.
Marco Rubio on hope

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.
Marco Rubio on hope

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
Audre Lorde on hope

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker on hope

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.
Daniel Inouye on hope

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. on hope