“Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.”
Hope is not naive — it is a strategy. These quotes explore optimism in the face of difficulty, the refusal to give up, and the quiet stubbornness of believing that tomorrow might be better than today, even when the evidence is thin.
“You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.”
“Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.”
“It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.”
“In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.”
“Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.”
“I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.”
“A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.”
“President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.”
“Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.”
“I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl.”
“In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.”
“I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.”
“Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.”
“I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.”
“I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that.”
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.”