Dream Big and Keep Your Positivity Going With These 125 Quotes About Hope
Short and famous hope quotes to provide a quick pick-me-up.
For many of us these days, it may feel like so much of life is up in the air. Although facing the unknown can be intimidating and honestly less-than-ideal, it's helpful to stay rooted in optimism and to not lose heart! Fortunately, these 125 quotes about hope should help revamp your motivation to stay positive and press on—even when encountering any uncertainty.
Maybe you're feeling overwhelmed with work or family struggles. Perhaps you've been chasing hard after a dream, with either no end in sight, or a strict routine to help you get there. Otherwise, it's possible you're actually having a pretty uneventful year, all things considered, and might just appreciate a good pick-me-up. Ultimately, no matter what your current circumstance or season in life, reigniting hope in your thoughts and choices can only make a positive, worthwhile impact.
So, wish upon those stars, harness that ambition, and keep up that confident, cheerful attitude! Remember that your perspective makes all the difference, and there's plenty of strength within you to push forward no matter what. Here are the best 125 quotes about hope to help inspire you!
125 Best Quotes About Hope
1. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” — Helen Keller
2. "You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda
3. "I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” — Anne Frank
4. "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
5. "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
6. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein
7. "Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” — Roy T. Bennett
8. "Hope is a waking dream.” — Aristotle
9. "In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.” — Fritz Knapp
10. "I always entertain great hopes." — Robert Frost
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11. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
12. "There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for." — J.R.R. Tolkien
13. "Every cloud has a silver lining." — John Milson
14. "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
15. "A leader is a dealer in hope." — Napoleon Bonaparte
16. "Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future." — Robert H. Schuller
17. "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
18. "To live without hope is to cease to live.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
19. "All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.” — Magic Johnson
20. "When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.” — Theodore Roosevelt
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21. "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
22. "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
23. "May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." — Nelson Mandela
24. "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” — Winston Churchill
25. "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
26. "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
27. "This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. "I inhale hope with every breath I take." — Sharon Kay Penman
29. "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
30. "We need hope, or else we cannot endure.” —Sarah J. Maas
31. "Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate." — G.K. Chesterton
32. "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
33. "In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer." — Albert Camus
34. "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." — Lin Yutang
35. "Never give up. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it." — Catherine Pulsifer
36. "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
37. "There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow." — O. S. Marden
38. "You are full of unshaped dreams… You are laden with beginnings… There is hope in you…" — Lola Ridge
39. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
40. "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
41. "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
42. "I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best." — Benjamin Disraeli
43. "You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated." — Maya Angelou
44. "A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope." — Thomas Carlyle
45. "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
46. "Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day." — E.B. White
47. "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
48. "This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.” — David Nicholls
49. "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
50. "But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
51. "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
52. "No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.” — Lupita Nyong'o
53. "The darkest hours are just before dawn." — English Proverb
54. "I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution." — Werner von Braun
55. "Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process." — Brené Brown
56. "As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by." — Lao Tzu
57. "Keep your best wishes close to your heart and watch what happens." — Tony DeLiso
58. "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
59. "Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be." — Don Quixote
60. "Hope never abandons you, you abandon it." — George Weinberg
61. "You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” — William Faulkner
62. "Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." — Martin Luther
63. "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” — Anatole France
64. "Hope is an embrace of the unknown." — Rebecca Solnit
65. "When you stop hoping you start settling." — Valorie Burton
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66. "Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible." — William Sloane Coffin
67. "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
68. "We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope." — Manel Loureiro
69. "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
70. "A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope." — Shannon K. Butcher
71. "Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” — Jonas Salk
72. "The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
73. "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 Spurgeon
74. "There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” — Bernard Williams
75. "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
76. "Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” — Mae Jemison
77. "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
78. "Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about." — Winston Churchill
79. "I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope." — Joel Osteen
80. "We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.” — John Green
81. "Hope is the ocean for the river, the sun for trees and the sky for us." — Maxime Lagacé
82. "Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." — Thomas Edison
83. "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" — Percy Bysshe Shelley
84. "The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope." — Samuel Johnson
85. "All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope." — Alexandre Dumas
86. "When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you’ll finally see the truth—that hero lies in you." — Mariah Carey
87. "I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday." — Will Smith
88. "There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind." — C. S. Lewis
89. "What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope." — George Eliot
90. "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
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91. "Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible." — Helen Keller
92. "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
93. "Things start out as hopes and end up as habits." — Lillian Hellman
94. "To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect." — Jane Austen
95. "Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. Hope without critical thinking is naïveté." — Maria Popova
96. "What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." — Oscar Wilde
97. "Once you choose hope, anything’s possible." — Christopher Reeve
98. "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
99. "Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” — Desmond Tutu
100. "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." — Audrey Hepburn
101. "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
102. "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
103. "Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
104. "A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.” — Howard Thurman
105. "While there’s life, there’s hope." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
106. "People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them." — Flannery O’Connor
107. "What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life." — Emil Brunner
108. "Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion." — Thomas Fuller
109. "For every dark night there’s a brighter day." — Tupac
110. "The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep." — E. Joseph Cossman
111. "Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it." — Barack Obama
112. "Hope springs eternal in the human breast." — Alexander Pope
113. "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." — Aristotle
114. "Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man." — Victor Hugo
115. "I dwell in possibility." — Emily Dickinson
116. "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
117. "Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.” — Samuel Smiles
118. "Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.” — Gustave Flaubert
119. "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
120. "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
121. "The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it." —J. M. Barrie
122. "Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday." — John Wayne
123. "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
124. "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
125. "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
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