Hope Quotes

It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

John Guare

Hope itself is like a star - not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

C H Spurgeon

Without trust in the possibilities for your life, where would you be? Our hopes for the future give us momentum. They keep us moving forward through the inevitable hard times, the discouragement and despair.

Nick Vujicic

Hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.

Fritz Knapp

There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient’s hopes are the physician’s secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredient in any prescription.

Norman Cousins

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

Maya Angelou

In a time of destruction, create something.

Maxine Hong Kingston

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Barbara Kingsolver

Never give up. Have hope. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it.

Catherine Pulsifer

Hope is a passion for the possible.

Søren Kierkegaard

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

G K Chesterton

Hope is the ocean for the river, the sun for trees and the sky for us.

Maxime Lagacé

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

Martin Luther King Jr

If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Romans 8:25

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.

Helen Keller

Hope is the last thing ever lost.

Italian proverb

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The most hopeful and the most enduring will prevail.

Maxime Lagacé

Hope and change are hard-fought things.

Michelle Obama

Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

Alexander Pope

However long the night, the dawn will break.

African Proverb

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Anne Frank

A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope.

Shannon K Butcher

Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

Brené Brown

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.

Samuel Johnson

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

Proverb

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.

E Joseph Cossman

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Alain de Botton

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

Romans 8:24

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

Jane Austen

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Lillian Hellman

If it were not for hope, the heart would break.

Thomas Fuller

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Desmond Tutu

The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.

Amanda Gorman

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

Lamentations 3:26

Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me … Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

Shel Silverstein

Fear never builds the future, but hope does.

Joe Biden

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

William Sloane Coffin

I dwell in possibility.

Emily Dickinson

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.

Norman Vincent Peale

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Proverbs 13:12

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Immanuel Kant

This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

Nelson Mandela

A great hope fell

You heard no noise

The ruin was within.

Emily Dickinson

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Victor Hugo

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

Cormac McCarthy

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

Toni Morrison

At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.

Tabitha Suzuma

While there's life, there's hope.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.

Roy T Bennett

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Thoreau

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

Martin Luther

Hope costs nothing.

Colette

But hoping, he said, is how the impossible can be possible after all.

Marissa Meyer

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

Theodore Roosevelt

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

G K Chesterton

Hope gives us the power to look beyond circumstances that otherwise appear hopeless.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

Albert Camus

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Franklin D Roosevelt

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Nelson Mandela

We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.

John Calvin

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

Jim Butcher

Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope

Elizabeth Gilbert

We need hope, or else we cannot endure.

Sarah J Maas

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

Frank Warren

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Immanuel Kant

Walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone.

Shah Rukh Khan

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Desmond Tutu

Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.

Padre Pio

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

Thomas Merton

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

J R R Tolkien

A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change.

Jan Dargatz

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Keller

There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.

J R R Tolkien

I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Anne Frank

It is because of hope that you suffer. It is through hope that you’ll change things.

Maxime Lagacé

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.

Christopher Reeve

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King Jr

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’ when things are tough.

Richard M DeVos

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don’t. You are in good company. You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

John Piper

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

Pablo Neruda

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.

Shigenori Kameoka

The darkest hours are just before dawn.

English Proverb

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Stephen King

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.

Anne Lamott

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

Dalai Lama

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

Victor Hugo

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope.

Stephen Hawking

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

George Washington Carver

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Goethe

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Benjamin Disraeli

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them.

Louisa May Alcott

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

Barack Obama

When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

Pittacus Lore

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

E B White

Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is a characteristic of all living beings.

Edward S Ame

Hope itself is like a star — not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.

Will Smith

Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, Wait and Hope.

Alexandre Dumas

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Desmond Tutu

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

Bernard Williams

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Robert H Schuller

Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.

Thomas Fuller

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.

Emanuel Cleaver

Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.

Charles Lindbergh

It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.

Richard Evans

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

Charles M Schulz

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything.

Thomas Carlyle

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Francis Bacon

To live without hope is to cease to live.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.

William Shakespeare

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

Sean O'Casey

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

Magic Johnson

It’s always something, to know you’ve done the most you could. But, don’t leave off hoping, or it’s of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last.

Charles Dickens

We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

Ed Markey

Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.

Psalms 119:114

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

Samuel Smiles

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

Howard Thurman

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

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Psalms 42:11

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Martin Luther

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Thomas Fuller

He who has hope has everything.

Arabian Proverb

Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

Psalms 31:24

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King Jr

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Samuel Smiles

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Robert H Schuller

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

Romans 15:13

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Tertullian

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Einstein

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering, yet hoping for all things.

Felicia Hemans

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Robert F Kennedy

Don’t despair. Destiny is full of surprises.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Michelle Obama

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Winston Churchill

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Jonas Salk

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Barbara Kingsolver