Hope quotes to remind you that better days are ahead, the light follows the dark, and there’s always a reason to keep believing.
I think of hope as a little fire inside that won’t go out, even when life tries hard to blow it out. It’s the brave thought that things can improve, even if they look messy. When everything feels wrong, hope is like a quiet hint from the universe: “Don’t give up yet; there’s something worth sticking around for.”
People see hope in different ways. Some call it a lifeline, like a soft bird sitting in your heart (thanks, Emily Dickinson), keeping you company. Others think it’s tricky, promising things it might not give looking at you, Nietzsche).
It’s the spark that helps dreamers keep dreaming and helps people who’ve been through tough times keep standing. Sometimes, it’s even the funny reason we buy lottery tickets, thinking maybe this time we’ll win.
Lately, I’ve been reading about what hope means to others. It’s like looking at a rainbow—every person shows a new side of it. I found ideas from innovative thinkers, doctors who study the mind, people fighting for change, doubters who question it, and others who see it in their own special ways.
Some thinkers said hope is a balance—dreaming big, but knowing life can be tricky. Doctors explain that it helps some people turn problems into chances to grow, while others give up when they fall.
People fighting for a better world say hope is like raising your hand against sadness—it’s the start of making things right. Doubters call it a pretty story we tell ourselves to feel better.
Then I saw how hope changes depending on where you’re from. In some places, it’s a personal goal you chase alone. In others, it’s like a warm blanket everyone shares to get through cold days.
A monk I read about called it a quiet sound you hear if you listen closely. A nurse said it’s the strength that keeps her going through long, tiring hours.
Hope is why I keep watering a plant that looks dead, thinking it may grow again. It’s strange. Hope can feel like a friend cheering you on or a whisper telling you to try one more time, even when things go wrong. But we need it. At the end of the day, it’s the unsung hero keeping us all semi-sane.
Stay with me—I’ve got quotes about hope coming up. They’ll make you think, maybe smile, and hopefully show you that tomorrow is worth looking forward to, whether you trust hope, doubt it, or accidentally find it.
Beautiful Hope Quotes
If you’re reading this…
Congratulations, you’re alive.
If that’s not something to smile about,
then I don’t know what is. ~ Chad Sugg
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
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
Hope. It’s like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It’s a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it’s the only thing in the world keeping me afloat. ~ Tahereh Mafi
A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it’s the most painful thing you’ll ever have to do and that you’ve ever done. But what’s yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it’ll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won’t have to put it back in the sky again. ~ C. JoyBell C.
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
We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope. ~ Manel Loureiro
Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering ‘it will be happier’. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I’d been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. ~ Dorothy Parker
It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday. ~ John Guare
I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. ~ Anne Frank
Out of doubt, out of dark to the day’s rising
I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope’s end I rode and to heart’s breaking:
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall! ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow. ~ Toni Morrison
Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily. ~ Lemony Snicket
The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose. ~ Arnold Bennett
Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous? ~ Ali Shaw
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest.
The soul, uneasy, and confin’d from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come. ~ Alexander Pope
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
And worse I may be yet: the worst is not so long as we can say This is the worst. ~ William Shakespeare
Tell me what’s the difference
between hope and waiting
because my heart doesn’t know
It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting
It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope. ~ Anna Kamienska
You call it hope — that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
History says, Don’t hope
On this side of the grave,
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme. ~ Seamus Heaney
The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss. ~ Erin Hunter
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. ~ Vaclav Havel
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed. ~ Michael Jackson
I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. ~ Barack Obama
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
Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about. ~ Winston Churchill
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. ~ William Sloane Coffin
Do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since, in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you? ~ Kate DiCamillo
When you don’t know where you’re going, you drive on the highway. ~ Roger Hedden
It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. ~ Anne Frank
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
The longest way must have its close—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death. I think peace and tranquillity will return again. ~ Anne Frank
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. ~ Dorothy Thompson
Inspirational Quotes About Hope
No. Don’t give up hope just yet. It’s the last thing to go. 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
Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever. ~ Roy T. Bennett
Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic. ~ Laini Taylor
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. ~ Bernard Williams
Right now, we’re living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better! ~ Chris Colfer
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ~ Epicurus
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. ~ Confucius
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
Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness. ~ Eckhart Tolle
When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you’ll finally see the truth—that a hero lies in you. ~ Mariah Carey
Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante’s hell is the inscription: “Leave behind all hope, you who enter here. ~ Jurgen Moltmann
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
Hope is our friend when every other friend has fled. ~ Charles F. Raymond
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. ~ Dalai Lama
We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones. ~ Ed Markey
All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them. ~ Magic Johnson
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. ~ Anne Frank
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are. ~ Saint Augustine
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins. ~ Lauren Oliver
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. ~ William Faulkner
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Nobody knows how things will turn out, that’s why they go ahead and play the game…You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it’s hardly ever what you expect. ~ Gennifer Choldenko
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
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. ~ Stephen Ambrose
I’ve always had the good sense to know that however bad things were, they wouldn’t remain so. Everything passes if you learn to hold things lightly. ~ Oprah Winfrey
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~ Albert Einstein
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. ~ David Nicholls
The music of hope is everywhere, but to hear it, you need to ignore the muddy jangle of life’s hassles. ~ Christine M Knight
The lesson is not how strong we may have been in the past; it is about how strong we are right now. This is our unmeasured strength. This is the power we have inside us, to persevere and prevail. ~ Lauren Manning
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate. ~ G.K. Chesterton
When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible. ~ Salman Rushdie
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 XIV
It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars. ~ Richard Evans
Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope. ~ Christy Lefteri
Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. ~ Stephen King
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
Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you’ll land among the stars. ~ Cecelia Ahern
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken. ~ John Green
A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope. ~ Shannon K. Butcher
Learn to ask even when you feel weak. Learn to work even if you don’t want to. Learn to hope even when the odds are against you. ~ Maxime Lagacé
Never give up. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it. ~ Catherine Pulsifer
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ~ Samuel Smiles
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. ~ Samuel Smiles
What gives me hope in these tenuous times is the knowledge that there is precedent for change and there’s precedent for hope. Hope has bred change again and again. ~ Ava DuVernay
No matter where you are on your journey, that’s exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead. ~ Oprah Winfrey
This is the rule of the universe, this is the one thing in life I know to be true. No matter how awful and long your journey, I can promise you the turn. One day it will lift. ~ Chanel Miller
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. ~ Mae Jemison
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ~ Helen Keller
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. ~ Helen Keller
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
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
Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. ~ Don Quixote
It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up. ~ C.J. Redwine
There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can’t hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew. ~ Rumi
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain. ~ Vivian Greene
Are you sure this will work?” asked Princess Sophie as she was pulling the cart away from Lady Ariana’s cottage.
“If you believe, it will work,” said Lady Ariana. ~ Mike Martin
Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, everyone. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other. ~ Veronica Roth
I want to believe that I’m not wrong. I want to believe that life isn’t full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me. ~ Natsuki Takaya
You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better. ~ Yann Martel
Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. ~ Steve Maraboli
When everything else tells you to “give up,” hope whispers “try it one more time.” ~ Unknown
At what point do you give up – decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never. ~ Tabitha Suzuma
Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope. ~ Tom Head
You can’t eat hope,’ the woman said. You can’t eat it, but it sustains you,’ the colonel replied. ~ Gabriel García Márquez
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope. ~ Anne Carson
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. ~ Lu Xun
There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow. ~ Aaron Lauritsen
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
Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer. ~ Padre Pio
I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance. ~ Jeanette Winterson
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. ~ Bill Keane
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
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. ~ Maya Angelou
You are not here merely to make a living, you are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. ~ Woodrow Wilson
Our psyche needs hope to survive the way a fish needs water. Hope is the fuel for our mental engine. ~ Mark Manson
In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced. ~ Fritz Knapp
Mature hope requires both a clear intention and a simultaneous letting go. ~ Frank Ostaseski
Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulant to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. ~ Erich Fromm
Hope teaches endurance and an eager anticipation of that which will become reality. ~ Simon J. Kistemaker
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. ~ O.S. Marden
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ~ Mark Twain
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
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
I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. ~ Ralph Ellison
As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. ~ Lao Tzu
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~ Thomas Edison
So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. ‘Yes,’ said the voice, ‘but cheer up, it’s fun at the end.’ ~ Roberto Bolaño
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
This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. ~ J. M. Barrie
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. ~ Brad Henry
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope. ~ Samuel Johnson
However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope. ~ Stephen Hawking
I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday. ~ Will Smith
When you stop hoping, you are on the vestibule of hell, for there is no hope there. ~ A. J. Cronin
Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day. ~ E.B. White
Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Health is the greatest of blessings – with health and hope we should be content to live. ~ John Keats
Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. Hope without critical thinking is naïveté. ~ Maria Popova
Short Quotes on Hope
H.O.P.E. – Hold On Pain Ends. ~ Unknown
Everything that is done in this world is done by hope. ~ Martin Luther
Hope is holding on to the promises of God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. ~ Joel Osteen
Hope is medicine for a soul that’s sick and tired. ~ Eric Swensson
While the heart beats, hope lingers. ~ Alison Croggon
However long the night, the dawn will break. ~ African Proverb
I always entertain great hopes. ~ Robert Frost
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. ~ John Wayne
Hope is the ocean for the river, the sun for trees and the sky for us. ~ Maxime Lagacé
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. ~ Leonard Cohen
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming. ~ Pablo Neruda
I dwell in possibility. ~ Emily Dickinson
Hope is an embrace of the unknown. ~ Rebecca Solnit
The darkest hours are just before dawn. ~ English Proverb
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind. ~ C. S. Lewis
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions. ~ Jodi Picoult
When you stop hoping you start settling. ~ Valorie Burton
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. ~ Robert H. Schuller
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope. ~ Charles M. Schulz
Hope is a passion for the possible. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. ~ Werner von Braun
Hope is warmth against the cold winter of adversity. ~ Terri Guillemets
I inhale hope with every breath I take. ~ Sharon Kay Penman
Every cloud has a silver lining. ~ John Milson
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life. ~ Emil Brunner
Live each day fully, but continue to hope for an even better future. ~ Unknown
For every dark night there’s a brighter day. ~ Tupac
There’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst. ~ Stephen King
Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope. ~ Charles Lindbergh
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. ~ Madeleine L’Engle
And the open road rolled out in front of us. ~ Alexandra Bracken
A leader is a dealer of hope. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all. ~ Virgil
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. ~ Christopher Reeve
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. ~ Victor Hugo
When hope animates us there is a vigour in the whole body. ~ John Calvin
All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found. ~ Lemony Snicket
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man. ~ Charles Bukowski
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Hope is the only tie which keeps the heart from breaking. ~ Thomas Fuller
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. ~ Epictetus
Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process. ~ Brene Brown
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. ~ Francis Bacon
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. ~ Albert Camus
Hope is a force of nature. Don’t let anyone tell you different. ~ Jim Butcher
As long as the sun’s shining, shit can’t be that bad. ~ J. Lynn
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. ~ George Weinberg
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. ~ Thomas Carlyle
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope. ~ Thomas Carlyle
There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t. ~ John Green
Hoping is disciplined waiting. ~ Ernst Hoffmann
Hope heals old wounds. ~ Unknown
It’s the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee. ~ Nicholas Sparks
To live without hope is to cease to live. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. ~ Antonio Porchia
We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hope has wings that make it fly. ~ Richard Mwebes
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future. ~ Albert Camus
Anything under God’s control is never out of control. ~ Charles Swindoll
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden. ~ Cormac McCarthy
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect. ~ Jane Austen
I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future. ~ Ralph Abernathy
Hope is a difficult thing to kill, just a spark of it can start a fire. ~ Stephanie Garber
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. ~ Desmond Tutu
I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Had to walk the rocks to see the mountain view. ~ Lead of Love, Caedmon’s Call
A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on. ~ Carl Sandburg
Barn’s burnt down — Now I can see the moon. ~ Mizuta Masahide
And sometimes, against all odds, against all logic, we still hope. ~ Ellen Pompeo
When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens. ~ Tony DeLiso
Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up. ~ David Orr
We need hope, or else we cannot endure. ~ Sarah J. Maas
Walk on with hope in your heart, and you’ll never walk alone. ~ Shah Rukh Khan
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. ~ Colin Powell
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Don’t say nope; there’s always hope! ~ Unknown
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst. ~ Joyce Carol Oates
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. ~ Abraham Cowley
The past is made out of facts… I guess the future is just hope. ~ Isaac Marion
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. ~ Lillian Hellman
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. ~ Henry Rollins
But hoping,” he said, “is how the impossible can be possible after all. ~ Marissa Meyer
How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive? ~ Nicholas Sparks
Come friends, it’s not too late to seek a newer world. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hope is the last thing ever lost. ~ Italian proverb
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in. ~ Leigh Bardugo
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. ~ Sir Thomas Browne
Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope. ~ Toba Beta
Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart. ~ Emanuel Cleaver
In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer. ~ Leo Tolstoy
While there is tea, there is hope. ~ Arthur Wing Pinero
The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope. ~ Shakespeare
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self. ~ Arthur Miller
Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of. ~ Markus Zusak
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~ Oscar Wilde
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. ~ Oscar Wilde
His grief is long whose hope is short. ~ Imam Ali
Quotes About Love and Hope
what am i to you he asks
i put my hands in his lap
and whisper you
are every hope
i’ve ever had
in human form. ~ Rupi Kaur
Love fills our hearts with hope, and hope makes love blossom. ~ Imam Ali
When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me. ~ Sean O’Casey
The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it is just the full dimensionality of your own capacity to feel that returns. ~ Susan Griffin
Love and hope are powerful forces. Together, they can conquer the darkest of times. ~ Unknown
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. ~ Paulo Coelho
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. ~ Gustave Flaubert
Hope is not about proving anything. It’s about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us. ~ Anne Lamott
We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss. ~ Cassandra Clare
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ~ Maya Angelou
Love without hope will not survive, love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and faith. ~ Toba Beta
Quotes for Hope and Faith
Hope is praying for rain, but faith is bringing an umbrella. ~ Unknown
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
Faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see. ~ Hebrews 11:1
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
A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change. ~ Jan Dargatz
Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. ~ Unknown
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
The future belongs to those who belong to God. This is hope. ~ W. T. Purkiser
Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope. ~ Pittacus Lore
Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free. ~ Shannon L. Alder
The world needs less heat and more light. It needs less of the heat of anger, revenge, retaliation, and more of the light of ideas, faith, courage, aspiration, joy, love and hope. ~ Wilferd Peterson
There can be no hope without faith in Christ, for hope is rooted in him alone. Faith without hope would, by itself, be empty and futile. ~ Ernst Hoffmann
As God is the author of our salvation, so Christ is the embodiment of our hope. ~ Geoffrey B. Wilson
But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. ~ Isaiah 40:31
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Quotes on Hope and Dreams
Hope is a waking dream. ~ Aristotle
Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams. ~ S.A. Sachs
Yesterday is but a dream,
Tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness,
and every tomorrow a vision of hope. ~ Kālidāsa
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly. ~ Langston Hughes
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. ~ Harriet Tubman
You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one. ~ John Lennon
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~ C.S. Lewis
You are full of unshaped dreams. You are laden with beginnings. There is hope in you. ~ Lola Ridge
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. ~ Michael Jackson
Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. ~ Neil Gaiman
A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope. ~ Howard Thurman
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. ~ Anatole France
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. ~ Pliny the Elder
The future is bright with hope, for hope fuels our dreams and fuels our actions. ~ Unknown
Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do. ~ Pope John XXIII
No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid. ~ Lupita Nyong’o
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. ~ Robert H. Goddard
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality. ~ Henri Bergson
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. ~ Jonas Salk
If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Quotes about Hope and Despair
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts. ~ Alain de Botton
Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope. ~ Alain de Botton
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
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ~ George Eliot
You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.’ He paused, considering what he had just said. ‘Yes’, he repeated. ‘In the end, it’s all a question of balance. ~ Rohinton Mistry
He who has never hoped can never despair. ~ G. B. Shaw
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death. ~ Nelson Mandela
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep. ~ E. Joseph Cossman
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. ~ Elie Wiesel
But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness. ~ Rick Yancey
Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but don’t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change. ~ Paul Rogat Loeb
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair.
Even when all doors remain closed, God wil open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that has been denied. ~ Elif Shafak
Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair. ~ Alexandre Duma
In an age of hope, men looked up at the night sky and saw ‘the heavens.’ In an age of hopelessness, they call it simply ‘space.’ ~ Peter Kreeft
Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever. ~ Lao Tzu
Long Quotes About Hope
Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope. ~ Vincent van Gogh
Every story has four parts: the beginning, the middle, the almost-ending, and the true ending. Unfortunately, not everyone gets a true ending. Most people give up at the part of the story where things are the worst, when the situation feels hopeless, but that is where hope is needed most. Only those who persevere can find their true ending. ~ Stephanie Garber
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. ~ Howard Zinn
Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something. The more futile, the more useless, the more irrelevant and incomprehensible an act of rebellion is, the vaster and more potent hope becomes. ~ Chris Hedges
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. 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
Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus. ~ Frederick Buechner
Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues. ~ Brother Lawrence
In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe that they are living that golden instant “now,” even having lived such a moment before, but whatever they say, in one part of their hearts they still believe in the certainty of a happier moment to come. Because how could anyone, and particularly anyone who is still young, carry on with the belief that everything could only get worse: If a person is happy enough to think he has reached the happiest moment of his life, he will be hopeful enough to believe his future will be just as beautiful, more so. ~ Orhan Pamuk
It isn’t as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don’t worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Never give up. It’s like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can’t do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don’t ever, ever, ever give up. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. ~ Robert Fulghum
So don’t be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don’t know what work they are accomplishing within you? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
When I listened to her, I understood: You have to hold out to see how your life unfolds, because it is most likely beyond what you can imagine. It is not a question of if you will survive this, but what beautiful things await you when you do. I had to believe her, because she was living proof. Then she said, Good and bad things come from the universe holding hands. Wait for the good to come. ~ Chanel Miller
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful ‘magic skills’ that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Yes, I decided, a man can truly change. The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it’s often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life, leading me to believe that while I’ve often overestimated what I could accomplish in a day, I had underestimated what I could do in a year. But most of all, I learned that it’s possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there’s been a lifetime of disappointment between them. ~ Nicholas Sparks
Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what’s going on, but that there’s something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world. ~ Pema Chödrön
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can’t help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be. ~ T.H. White
Quotes About Hope, Grit, and Getting Back Up
Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people. ~ Tena Desae
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
Stay hopeful. You never know what tomorrow may bring. ~ Unknown
A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don’t have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perseverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough. ~ Robert Kraft
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
Quotes About Hope and Fear
Still, if I don’t believe in the possibility, I might go mad from fear. ~ Libbie Hawker
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. ~ Nelson Mandela
Hope in the shadow of fear is the world’s most powerful motivator. ~ Neal Shusterman
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. ~ François de La Rochefoucauld
Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay. ~ Maya Angelou.
Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. ~ Suzanne Collins
Hope Quotes That Understand Hopelessness
Hope isn’t always easy. Sometimes, it feels cruel, distant, or even damaging. There are moments when hope feels more like a weight than a light. These quotes reflect that darker side—not to drag you down, but to remind you you’re not alone if you’re feeling this way. Being seen is its own kind of comfort.
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. ~ L.M. Montgomery
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
I don’t like hope very much. In fact, I hate it. It’s the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. It’s bad news. The worst. It’s sharp sticks and cherry bombs. When hope shows up, it’s only a matter of time until someone gets hurt. ~ Jennifer Donnelly
You’ll stop hurting when you stop hoping. ~ Guillaume Musso
Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don’t know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it’s not. It’s a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it. ~ Ann Patchett
It is hard to explain the savagery of hope. ~ Holly Black
Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. ~ Jennifer Donnelly
Hope has surprised me in my own life. At times, it’s strong and easy to see; other times, it’s a gentle nudge when I need help. That’s how it’s been for me. Now it’s your turn. When did hope show up for you? Did it stay with you through hard times, or did it slip away and return later? I’d love to know whatever happened because hope gets bigger when we talk about it together.
