Definition of Hopeful

Hopeful

Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant.

Having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of good or of success; as, a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect.

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Hopeful Quotations

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George Eliot

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.
George W. Bush

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
Bob Hope

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Robert Louis Stevenson

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
Joe Biden

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

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

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.
Irwin Shaw

So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense.
Studs Terkel

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.
Jack Youngblood

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

I'm a hopeful cynic.
Tracy Chapman

You have to be hopeful that people will be more educated in how they buy things, and hopefully more luxury brands will start to think that way on a longer-term basis.
Stella McCartney

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

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.
Thomas Haden Church

What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.
Brad Henry

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

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.
Jim Clyburn

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.
Deana Carter

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.
Michael Novak

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.
Daniel Okrent

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

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

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.
Thomas Edward Brown

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Hopeful Translations

hopeful in German is hoffnungsvoll
hopeful in Italian is speranzoso
hopeful in Norwegian is forventningsfull
hopeful in Spanish is esperanzado
hopeful in Swedish is hoppfull

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