Hopefuls Quotes & Sayings

The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it is still too early to assertions. They're all 'in the field.' It remains to be seen how many will cross the finish line. — Robert Frost

Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls. — Lucy Powell

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement. — Nelson Mandela

You're buried in there so deep it's like I was born with you in my soul. — Kate McCarthy

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

She ran as the first maples started to change color, then the oak.
She jumped over roots, she sidestepped brambles, her footfalls echoing off plank bridges traversing streams.
She was the first person at practice. The last to go home.
She ran for speed. She ran for distance. She stretched carefully first thing in the morning and last thing before bed. — C.D. Bell

By mental cultivation I mean a disciplined application of mind that involves deepening our familiarity with a chosen object or theme. Here I am thinking of the Sanskrit term bhavana, which connotes "cultivation," and whose Tibetan equivalent, gom, has the connotation of "familiarization." These two terms, often translated into English as meditation, refer to a whole range of mental practices and not just, as many suppose, to simple methods of relaxation. The original terms imply a process of cultivating familiarity with something, whether it is a habit, a way of seeing, or a way of being. — Dalai Lama XIV

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory. — Judy Woodruff

The true instrument is that, with the help of which, the egoism and my-ness goes away. — Dada Bhagwan

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor. — H.L. Mencken

All White House hopefuls we forewarn:
You'll have to prove that you were born.
Before Trump hits the state of granite,
He must identify the planet
Where he first took on human form -
A place where blowhards are the norm. — Calvin Trillin

My journey defines me; but I AM the journey. Be your own journey — D. Denise Dianaty

The point is that we are not doomed because we are homosexual, my dear, we are doomed only if we live in despair because of it, as we did on the beaches and the streets of Suck City. — Andrew Holleran

The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability. — S.A. Tawks

I'd rather be a success as a fish than a failure as a fish trying to be a bird. — Eva Le Gallienne

By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle ... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls. — Jonathan Raban

The money in the chorus isn't very good, is it?!" she said. "No." It was less than you'd get for scrubbing floors. The reason was that, when you advertised a dirty floor, hundreds of hopefuls didn't turn up. — Terry Pratchett

When Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner asked a roomful of Olympic hopefuls if they had a list of written goals, every one raised their hands. When he asked how many of them had that list with them right that moment, only one person raised their hand. That person was Dan O'Brien. And it was Dan O'Brien who went on to win the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Don't underestimate the power of setting goals and constantly reviewing them. — Jack Canfield

Pissing off the hottie you're married to is far worse, 'cause she chose you over all of the other pathetic hopefuls, and expects more outta you because of it. — Daniel Kelley

To the hopefuls who believe in the magic of ridiculous, silly, and playful love. — Brittainy C. Cherry