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Hope Quotes

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Hope Quotes

Some people just love to look on the bright side of life. Click on any hope quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.

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"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'"

Source: Jeremiah 29:10-14 | Speaker: The Prophet Jeremiah

"Adventure is out there."

Source: Up | Speaker: Charles Muntz

"All things work together for good."

Source: Romans 8:28 | Author: Paul of Tarsus

"All you need is love"

Source: "All You Need is Love" | Speaker: The Beatles

"Allons-y!"

Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: Tenth Doctor

"And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came."

Source: Other Voices, Other Rooms | Author: Truman Capote

"And it'd be our own, an' nobody could can us."

Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck

"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."

Source: East of Eden | Author: John Steinbeck

"Anything worth dying for...is certainly worth living for."

Source: Catch-22 | Author: Joseph Heller

"Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee."

Source: The Book of Isaiah | Author: The Prophet Isaiah

"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

Source: Gone with the Wind | Author: Margaret Mitchell

"As good as dead"

Source: Hebrews 11:11-12 | Author: The Author of Hebrews

"As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together."

Source: Journey to the Center of the Earth | Author: Jules Verne

"Baby, we were born to run."

Source: Born to Run | Speaker: Bruce Springsteen

"Baby, you got a stew going."

Source: Arrested Development | Speaker: Carl Weathers

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

Source: The Dalai Lama's visit to Capitol Hill | Speaker: Dalai Lama

"Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you"

Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck

"Blessed are the meek"

Source: Matthew 5:5 | Speaker: Jesus

"Blessed are the peacemakers."

Source: Matthew 5:9 | Author: Matthew

"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise."

Source: Still I Rise | Author: Maya Angelou

"Buongiorno, principessa!"

Source: Life Is Beautiful | Speaker: Guido

"Can we all get along?"

Source: Press Conference | Speaker: Rodney King

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

Source: February 5, 2008 Speech | Speaker: Barack Obama

"Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose."

Source: Friday Night Lights | Speaker: Coach Eric Taylor

"Come on down!"

Source: The Price is Right | Speaker: Johnny Olson

"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

Source: Matthew 11:28 | Speaker: Jesus

"Come with me if you want to live."

Source: The Terminator | Speaker: Kyle Reese

"Could be raining."

Source: Young Frankenstein | Speaker: Igor

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

Source: "Loving Your Enemies" Sermon, Christmas Day 1957 | Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.

"Death, thou shalt die"

Source: Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10) | Author: John Donne

"Do you believe in miracles?"

Source: 1980 Winter Olympics | Speaker: Al Michaels

"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?"

Source: "Firework" | Speaker: Katy Perry

"Do you feel lucky, punk?"

Source: Dirty Harry | Speaker: Harry Callahan

"Dominion over the earth"

Source: Genesis 1:28 | Author: Moses

"Don't just fly, soar."

Source: Dumbo | Speaker: Timothy Mouse

"Don't let the sun go down on me."

Source: "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" | Speaker: Elton John

"Don't stop believin'."

Source: Don't Stop Believin' | Speaker: Journey

"Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

Source: The Catcher in the Rye | Author: J. D. Salinger

"Doubting Thomas"

Source: John 20:24-27 | Author: John

"Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony."

Source: Ebony and Ivory | Speaker: Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder

"Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world."

Source: 2003 Speech | Speaker: Nelson Mandela

"Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings."

Source: It's a Wonderful Life | Speaker: Zuzu Bailey

"Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Source: John 3:3 | Author: John

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

Source: Coraline | Author: Neil Gaiman & G.K. Chesterton

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for."

Source: The Epistle to the Hebrews | Author: Unknown

"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

Source: Luke 12:34 | Author: Luke

"From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition."

Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

Source: The Shawshank Redemption | Speaker: Andy Dufresne and "Red" Redding

"Get up, stand up."

Source: Get Up, Stand Up | Speaker: Bob Marley & The Wailers

"Go west."

Source: Go West | Speaker: The Village People

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."

Source: Psalms 46:1-3 | Author: Author of Psalms

"Good night, and good luck."

Source: See It Now | Speaker: Edward R. Murrow

"Happiness can be found in the darkest of times."

Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Speaker: Albus Dumbledore

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."

Source: Unknown | Speaker: Dalai Lama

"Have a vision. Be demanding."

Source: It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership | Author: Colin Powell

"He chose poorly."

Source: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Speaker: Grail Knight

"He heals the brokenhearted."

Source: Psalm 147:3 | Author: The Psalmist

"He lives in you."

Source: The Lion King | Speaker: Rafiki

"Heal the world, make it a better place."

Source: "Heal the World" | Speaker: Michael Jackson

"Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine."

Source: A Star Is Born | Speaker: Vicki Lester

"Hello. IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

Source: The IT Crowd | Speaker: Roy Trenneman

"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."

Source: Stars Wars Episode IV: A New Hope | Speaker: Princess Leia Organa

"Here comes the sun. And I say, it's all right."

Source: "Here Comes the Sun" | Author: George Harrison

"Hey Jude, don't make it bad"

Source: "Hey Jude" | Speaker: The Beatles

"Hold fast to dreams"

Source: "Dreams" | Author: Langston Hughes

"Hold me closer, Tony Danza."

Source: "Tiny Dancer" | Speaker: Elton John

"Hope is the thing with feathers—That perches in the soul"

Source: Hope Is the Thing with Feathers | Author: Emily Dickinson

"How many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry?"

Source: Blowin' in the Wind | Speaker: Bob Dylan

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

Source: The Diary of Anne Frank | Author: Anne Frank

"I am big. It's the pictures that got small."

Source: Sunset Boulevard | Speaker: Norma Desmond

"I am Groot."

Source: Guardians of the Galaxy | Speaker: Groot

"I am vengeance! I am the night! I am Batman!"

Source: Batman: The Animated Series | Speaker: Batman

"I believe it is peace for our time."

Source: Speech outside 10 Downing Street | Speaker: Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain

"I can do all things through Christ."

Source: Philippians 4:13 | Author: Paul

"I can't help falling in love with you."

Source: Can't Help Falling in Love | Speaker: Elvis Presley

"i carry your heart"

Source: i carry your heart with me(i carry it in) | Author: E. E. Cummings

"I do my best to love everybody"

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee

"I don't care who you are, where you're from, what you did, as long as you love me"

Source: "As Long As You Love Me" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys

"I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary."

Source: American Beauty | Speaker: Angela Hayes

"I get by with a little help from my friends."

Source: With a Little Help from My Friends | Speaker: The Beatles

"I got you, babe."

Source: I Got You Babe | Speaker: Sonny Bono and Cher

"I had to go see about a girl."

Source: Good Will Hunting | Speaker: Will Hunting

"I have a dream"

Source: "I Have a Dream" Speech | Speaker: Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature."

Source: Northanger Abbey | Author: Jane Austen

"I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom."

Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Author: Frederick Douglass

"I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am."

Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath

"I hope, or I could not live."

Source: The Island of Dr. Moreau | Author: H.G. Wells

"I invented the internet."

Source: Al Gore | Speaker: Al Gore

"I love you only because it's you the one I love"

Source: I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You | Author: Pablo Neruda

"I rise"

Source: "Still I Rise" | Author: Maya Angelou

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am."

Source: The Bell Jar | Author: Sylvia Plath

"I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters—two beautiful, intelligent, Black young women—playing with their dogs on the White House lawn."

Source: 2016 Democratic National Convention Speech | Speaker: Michelle Obama

"I wanna really really really wanna zig-a-zig ha."

Source: "Wannabe" | Speaker: The Spice Girls

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light."

Source: Question and Answer Session | Speaker: Helen Keller

"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules."

Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith

"I'll never let go, Jack. I'll never let go."

Source: Titanic | Speaker: Rose DeWitt Bukater

"I'm here to fight for truth and justice and the American Way."

Source: Superman | Speaker: Superman

"I'm starting with the man in the mirror"

Source: "Man in the Mirror" | Speaker: Michael Jackson

"I'm the ghost with the most, babe."

Source: Beetlejuice | Speaker: Beetlejuice

"I, too, sing America."

Source: I, Too, Sing America | Author: Langston Hughes

"If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?"

Source: "Free Bird" | Speaker: Lynyrd Skynyrd

"If you build it, they will come."

Source: Field of Dreams | Speaker: Ray Kinsella

"If you change your mind, I'm the first in line. Honey, I'm still free, take a chance on me."

Source: Take a Chance on Me | Speaker: ABBA

"If you think Mick Jagger will be out there trying to be a rock star at age 50, then you are sadly, sadly mistaken."

Source: Almost Famous | Speaker: Dennis Hope

"Imagine all the people, livin' life in peace."

Source: "Imagine" | Speaker: John Lennon

"In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye."

Source: 1 Corinthians 15:52 | Author: Paul

"In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart."

Source: The Diary of Anne Frank | Author: Anne Frank

"It don't matter if you're black or white."

Source: Black or White | Speaker: Michael Jackson

"It loves more readily than it hates."

Source: The Scarlet Letter | Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."

Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Author: J.K. Rowling

"It's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee

"It's October 3rd."

Source: Mean Girls | Speaker: Cady Heron

"It's the end of the world as we know it"

Source: "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" | Speaker: R.E.M.

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

Source: Unknown | Speaker: Ella Fitzgerald

"Kid, you'll move mountains!"

Source: Oh, the Places You'll Go! | Author: Dr. Seuss

"Let the sky fall. When it crumbles, we will stand tall."

Source: "Skyfall" | Speaker: Adele

"Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over."

Source: Shaun of the Dead | Speaker: Shaun

"Life finds a way."

Source: Jurassic Park | Speaker: Dr. Ian Malcolm

"Logic is no doubt unshakable, but it can't withstand a person who wants to live."

Source: The Trial | Author: Franz Kafka

"Long walks at night—that's what good for the soul"

Source: And the Moon and the Stars and the World | Author: Charles Bukowski

"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"

Source: Adventures of Superman | Speaker: Men and Women

"Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"

Source: White Heat | Speaker: Cody Jarrett

"Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day."

Source: Napoleon Dynamite | Speaker: Kip Dynamite

"New York, New York!"

Source: "Theme from New York, New York" | Speaker: Frank Sinatra

"Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything."

Source: A Wrinkle in Time | Author: Madeleine L'Engle

"Out of the sea, wish I could be, part of your world."

Source: Part of Your World | Speaker: Ariel

"Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!"

Source: Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo | Speaker: Fairy Godmother

"Sanctuary!"

Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Speaker: Quasimodo

"Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime."

Source: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 Musical) | Speaker: Christine Daae

"See eye to eye."

Source: Isaiah 52:8 | Author: Isaiah

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God."

Source: The Gospel of Matthew | Speaker: Jesus of Nazareth

"Shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent."

Source: Isaiah 27:1 | Author: Isaiah

"Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours."

Source: Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours | Speaker: Stevie Wonder

"Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you its only seed."

Source: The Rose | Speaker: Bette Midler

"Somewhere over the rainbow."

Source: The Wizard of Oz | Speaker: Dorothy Gale

"Space, the final frontier."

Source: Star Trek | Speaker: Narrator

"Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation."

Source: My Life with Martin Luther King Jr. | Author: Coretta Scott King

"Stuff your eyes with wonder."

Source: Fahrenheit 451 | Author: Ray Bradbury

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

Source: Up from Slavery: An Autobiography | Author: Booker T. Washington

"Tear down this wall!"

Source: Spoken on June 12, 1987 | Speaker: Ronald Reagan

"That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Source: The Gettysburg Address | Author: Abraham Lincoln

"That is the life of men."

Source: Their Eyes were Watching God | Author: Zora Neale Hurston

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

Source: First Moon Landing | Speaker: Neil Armstrong

"The apple of my eye"

Source: Psalm 17:8 | Author: David

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

Source: March from Selma, 1965 | Speaker: Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The claaaww!"

Source: Toy Story | Speaker: Squeeze Toy Aliens

"The face that launched a thousand ships"

Source: Doctor Faustus | Author: Christopher Marlowe

"The fathers have eaten sour grapes"

Source: Ezekiel 18:2 | Author: Ezekiel

"The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace"

Source: The Epistle to the Romans | Author: Paul of Tarsus

"The greatest of these is love."

Source: 1 Corinthians 13:13 | Author: Paul

"The hardest thing in this world is to live in it."

Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Speaker: Buffy Summers

"The list is an absolute good. The list is life."

Source: Schindler's List | Speaker: Itzhak Stern

"The love you take is equal to the love you make."

Source: "The End" | Speaker: The Beatles

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop | Author: Charles Dickens

"The truth shall set you free."

Source: John 8:32 | Speaker: Jesus

"there's a bluebird in my heart that/ wants to get out/ but I'm too tough for him"

Source: Bluebird | Author: Charles Bukowski

"There's a light on in the attic."

Source: A Light in the Attic | Author: Shel Silverstein

"There's always hope tomorrow will be taco night."

Source: Orange Is the New Black | Speaker: Nicky Nichols

"There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind."

Source: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater | Author: Kurt Vonnegut

"They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end."

Source: Psalm 107:27 | Author: Psalmist

"This is nothing!"

Source: Wag the Dog | Speaker: Stanley Motss

"This is the people's war!"

Source: Mrs. Miniver | Speaker: The Vicar

"This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom."

Source: Fight Club | Author: Chuck Palahniuk

"Time for the charm bomb to explode."

Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher

"Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner.""

Source: Ich bin ein Berliner Speech | Speaker: John F. Kennedy

"Tomorrow is another day."

Source: Gone with the Wind | Speaker: Margaret Mitchell

"Tutti frutti, oh rutti."

Source: Tutti Frutti | Speaker: Little Richard

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan | Author: Oscar Wilde

"We are canceling the apocalypse!"

Source: Pacific Rim | Speaker: Stacker Pentecost

"We are not makers of history; we are made by history."

Source: Strength to Love | Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We can have lots of good fun that is funny!"

Source: The Cat in the Hat | Author: Dr. Seuss

"We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."

Source: The Mill on the Floss | Author: George Eliot

"We could live offa the fatta the lan'."

Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck

"We didn't need dialogue. We had faces."

Source: Sunset Boulevard | Speaker: Norma Desmond

"We live in the best of all possible worlds."

Source: Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil | Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz

"We shall never surrender."

Source: We Shall Fight on the Beaches speech (June 1940) | Speaker: Winston Churchill

"When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing."

Source: Death of a Salesman | Author: Arthur Miller

"When you wish upon a star."

Source: When You Wish Upon a Star | Speaker: Jiminy Cricket

"Will you accept this rose?"

Source: The Bachelor | Speaker: Bachelors

"Win just one for the Gipper."

Source: Knute Rockne All American | Speaker: George Gipp

"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away."

Source: "Yesterday" | Speaker: The Beatles

"You are the sunshine of my life."

Source: You Are the Sunshine of My Life | Speaker: Stevie Wonder

"You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything."

Source: "Building a Dream" in Oprah Magazine | Speaker: Oprah Winfrey

"You can feel it all over. You can feel it all over, people."

Source: Sir Duke | Speaker: Stevie Wonder

"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need."

Source: You Can't Always Get What You Want | Speaker: The Rolling Stones

"You got mud on your face, you big disgrace."

Source: We Will Rock You | Speaker: Queen

"You know I read it in a magazine, oh-oh."

Source: Bennie and the Jets | Speaker: Elton John

"You make me want to be a better man."

Source: As Good As It Gets | Speaker: Melvin Udall

"You may say I'm a dreamer."

Source: "Imagine" | Speaker: John Lennon

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Source: Unknown | Author: Mahatma Gandhi

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life | Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."

Source: Persuasion | Author: Jane Austen

"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked."

Source: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Speaker: Jefferson Smith

"You're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom."

Source: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Speaker: Judge May