180 Hope Quotes That Will Empower You

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. Christopher Reeve Click to tweet

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King Jr Click to tweet

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope. Martin Luther Click to tweet

I dwell in possibility. Emily Dickinson Click to tweet

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. Nelson Mandela Click to tweet

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It is because of hope that you suffer. It is through hope that you’ll change things. Maxime Lagacé Click to tweet

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. Henry David Thoreau Click to tweet

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. Desmond Tutu Click to tweet

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Aristotle Click to tweet

There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for. J.R.R. Tolkien Click to tweet

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

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

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 never abandons you, you abandon it. George Weinberg

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The Best Hope Quotes

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Hope is a passion for the possible. Søren Kierkegaard

Every cloud has a silver lining. John Milson Click to tweet

While there’s life, there’s hope. Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Only in the darkness can you see the stars. Martin Luther King Jr

Our future is our confidence and self-esteem. Tupac

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. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Hope is but the dream of those who wake. Matthew Prior

Hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things, and good things never die. Andy Dufresne (Shawshank Redemption)

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all… As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength. G.K. Chesterton

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. Barack Obama

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. Dalai Lama

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

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. Hafiz of Persia

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

All human eyes have longing in them. Ernesto Cardenal

Walk on with hope in your heart, and you’ll never walk alone. Shah Rukh Khan

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Victor Hugo Click to tweet

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What Is Hope?

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Hope is a​n embrace of the unknown​. Rebecca Solnit

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

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 is a double-edged sword. Use it and you’ll suffer until you reach your goal. Don’t use it you’ll fall into despair. Maxime Lagacé

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

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

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The Most Famous Hope Quotes (Obama, Churchill, Keller, etc.)

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. Confucius Click to tweet

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

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi

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. Nelson Mandela

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

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

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. Aristotle

Hope is the poor man’s bread. Gary Herbert

Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison

To live without hope is to cease to live. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something. Not even me. Chris Gardner (Will Smith in the movie The Pursuit Of Happyness)

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Steve Jobs

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

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

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

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? Barack Obama

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. Martin Luther King Jr

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. Oprah Winfrey Click to tweet

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed. Michael Jackson

The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope. William Shakespeare

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

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill

If you are going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill

For every dark night there’s a brighter day. Tupac

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Short Hope Quotes

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Kid, you’ll move mountains! Dr. Seuss Click to tweet

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

Yes we can! Barack Obama

Hope and change are hard-fought things. Michelle Obama

A drowning man will clutch at a straw. Sir Thomas More

Hope springs eternal in the human breast. Alexander Pope

What we do now echoes in eternity. Marcus Aurelius

Injustice never rules forever. Seneca

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn. J.R.R. Tolkien

Hope is medicine for a soul that’s sick and tired. Eric Swensson

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light. Albert Pike Click to tweet

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. David Nicholls

Hope costs nothing. Colette

Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up. David Orr

Hope keeps you alive. Lauren Olive

I accept the universe! Margaret Fuller

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Inspirational Hope Quotes

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All things are difficult before they are easy. Thomas Fuller Click to tweet

I inhale hope with every breath I take. Sharon Kay Penman

However long the night, the dawn will break. African proverb

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. Robert H. Schuller

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

We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn’t want to be ordinary. Robert M. Drake

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? Jane Wagner

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. Robert G. Ingersoll

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

Part 1. Hope is not blind optimism. It’s not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It’s not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Barack Obama

Part 2. 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

Part 3. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be. Barack Obama

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. William Faulkner

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

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

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

Part 1. Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. Thomas Merton

Part 2. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything. Thomas Merton

The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It’s enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrows currently assail us aren’t worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon. Joni Eareckson Tada

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. Francis of Assisi

You are full of unshaped dreams… You are laden with beginnings… There is hope in you… Lola Ridge

Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. John F. Kennedy

A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope. Shannon K. Butcher Click to tweet

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

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

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

Rosa sat so Martin could walk, Martin walked so Barack could run, Barack ran so we all can fly. Unknown

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. Werner von Braun

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken. John Green

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope. Thomas Carlyle

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Funny And Surprising Hope Quotes

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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 (Life of Pi)

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

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions. Jodi Picoult

To hear the phrase “our only hope” always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn’t work, there is nothing left. Lemony Snicket

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

People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. Flannery O’Connor

Got no check books, got no banks. Still I’d like to express my thanks – I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. Irving Berlin

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try! Dr. Seuss

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light. Dorothy Thompson

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. Audrey Hepburn

Deep Hope Quotes And Metaphors

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Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. Anne Frank Click to tweet

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. W. Rawley

By clinging to hope, you unknowingly cling to fear. James Pierce

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments. Friedrich Nietzsche

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future. Albert Camus

Hope comes from dreams. Dreams come from ambition. Ambition comes from the unwillingness to accept the facts. Maxime Lagacé

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

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. O. S. Marden

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It 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

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. Will Durant

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

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. Abraham Cowley

He who has never hoped can never despair. George Bernard Shaw

Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams. S.A. Sachs

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. Robert Ingersoll

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. Pearl S. Buck

Hope is the belief that this moment isn’t good enough. Naval Ravikant

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. François de La Rochefoucauld

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. Albert Schweitzer

Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering. D. Morgenstern

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. Charles Haddon Spurgeon Click to tweet

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

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. Kahlil Gibran

You’ll stop hurting when you stop hoping. Guillaume Musso

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Wise Hope Quotes (Words of wisdom)

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. Oscar Wilde

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable. Robert Brault Click to tweet

If you never try something new, you never learn. If you never create, you never contribute. If you never hope, you never change. Maxime Lagacé

Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process. Brené Brown (The Gifts of Imperfection)

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

Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. Hope without critical thinking is naïveté. Maria Popova

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option. James Cameron

When you stop hoping you start settling. Valorie Burton

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

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 very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. T.S. Eliot

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

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. Samuel Johnson

A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope. Geraldine Solon

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

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

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

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation. Alan Cohen

All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Henri Nouwen

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. William Sloane Coffin Click to tweet

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment. William Penn

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. Baruch Spinoza

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. Lillian Hellman

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

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Part 3. The Best Hope Speeches

Barack Obama

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Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire;
what led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation;
what led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom’s cause.
Hope is what led me here today – with a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas;
and a story that could only happen in the United States of America.
Hope is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us;
by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is;
who have courage to remake the world as it should be.

Howard Zinn

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To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something.
If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act.
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.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime, therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

Kalidasa

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Listen to the exhortation of the dawn!
Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendor of beauty;
For yesterday is but a dream,
And to-morrow is only a vision;
But to-day well lived makes
Every yesterday a dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day!
Such is the salutation of the dawn!

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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For what it’s worth… it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be.
There’s no time limit.
Start whenever you want.
You can change or stay the same.
There are no rules to this thing.
We can make the best or the worst of it.
I hope you make the best of it.
I hope you see things that startle you.
I hope you feel things you’ve never felt before.
I hope you meet people who have a different point of view.
I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start over again. Click to tweet

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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. Chesterson Click to tweet

With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all. Jean-Paul Sartre

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