Hope Quotes
Hope, a tiny spark that can ignite a fire within us, is a universal emotion that connects us all. It’s the guiding light that leads us through life’s darkest moments, the anchor that keeps us steady when the world seems to be falling apart.
From ancient philosophers to modern-day influencers, countless individuals have shared their wisdom on the power of hope.
One of my favorite quotes about hope comes from the American author Helen Keller: “Optimism is faith in action. It is the belief that tomorrow will be better than today because of the work you put in today.” This quote resonates with me because it emphasizes the importance of active hope, the idea that we must take steps to create the future we envision.
In this collection of 125+ hope quotes, you’ll find inspiring words from various sources, including poets, authors, philosophers, and everyday people.
Best Hope Quotes
1.) Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope.
John Lewis
2.) A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Sir Thomas More
3.) Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
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4.) The darkest hours are just before dawn.
English Proverb
5.) Where hope grows, miracles blossom.
Elna Rae
6.) Fear ends where faith begins.
Georgio A. Dano
7.) Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Stephen King
8.) Where there’s life, there’s hope.
Theocritus
9.) Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
Christopher Reeve
Hopeful Quotes
10.) A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin
11.) Overcoming adversity not only makes you stronger, it makes you more hopeful.
Valerie Jarrett
12.) To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent, that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
13.) You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
Pablo Neruda
14.) There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
Arthur C. Clarke
15.) Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
16.) Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, and stay faith-filled.
Joel Osteen
17.) Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
Martha Beck
18.) To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
19.) To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.
Rebecca Solnit
Have Hope Quotations
20.) Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
Mary Lou Retton
21.) The most important thing is to stay positive.
Saku Koivu
22.) A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for.
Mark Shuttleworth
23.) When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.
Unknown
24.) It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.
Ellen DeGeneres
25.) The future depends on what you do today.
Mahatma Gandhi
26.) Staying positive does not mean that things will turn out okay. Rather it is knowing that YOU will be okay no matter how things turn out.
Unknown
27.) The eerie day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
Unknown
28.) Stay positive; all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche.
Joe Peterson
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Long For
29.) Life always offers you a second chance. It’s called tomorrow.
Unknown
30.) Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
Charlie Chaplin
31.) Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
Michael Jordan
32.) Sometimes when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried, but actually you’ve been planted.
Unknown
33.) Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
34.) You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
C.S. Lewis
35.) When it rains, it pours? But soon, the sun shines again. Stay positive. Better days are on their way.
Unknown
36.) The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo
Bible Quotes About Faith
37.) For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11
38.) You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word.
Psalm 119:114
39.) The LORD is my portion, says my soul, therefore I hope in Him.
Lamentations 3:24
40.) 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…
Isaiah 40:31
41.) The Lord takes pleasure in those who fear Him, in those who hope in His mercy.
Psalm 147:11
42.) The Lord will keep you from all harm
he will watch over your life,
the Lord will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.
Psalm 121:7-8
43.) For surely there is a hereafter, and your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 23:18
44.) Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.
Jeremiah 17:7
45.) Be strong and take heart,
all you who hope in the Lord.
Psalm 31:24
Faith Quotations
46.) Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
47.) Faith allows things to happen. It is the power that comes from a fearless heart. And when a fearless heart believes, miracles happen.
Unknown
48.) An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
Brian Tracy
49.) Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
50.) To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed, not in darkness, but in light.
Mother Teresa
51.) To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas
52.) There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
Bernard Williams
53.) Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Khalil Gibran
54.) Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
55.) Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire
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Conviction
56.) Without faith, a man can do nothing; with it, all things are possible.
Sir William Osler
57.) I would rather err on the side of faith than on the side of doubt.
Robert Schuller
58.) It needs less of the heat of anger, revenge, retaliation, and more of the light of ideas, faith, courage, aspiration, joy, love, and hope.
Wilfred Peterson
59.) None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still, we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
Paulo Coelho
60.) Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
61.) I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel – I am moved only by what I believe.
Smith Wigglesworth
Words of Hope
62.) The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Winston Churchill
63.) Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
64.) Hope is a risk that must be run.
Georges Bernanos
65.) It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.
Richard Evans
66.) Encouragement is the fuel of hope. It’s true that people become what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be.
Zig Ziglar
67.) Every cloud has a silver lining.
John Milson
68.) I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank
69.) When the heart weeps for what is lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found.
Sufi Aphorism
70.) Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Hopeful
71.) Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
Unknown
72.) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
73.) There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo
74.) In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
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75.) Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Confidence
76.) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller
77.) Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Pliny The Elder
78.) However long the night, the dawn will break.
African Proverb
79.) It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.
John Guare
80.) However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope.
Stephen Hawking
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Strength Sayings
81.) Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always looks there.
Marcus Aurelius
82.) I do not ask a store of wealth, nor special gift of power; I hope always for strength and health to brave each troubled hour.
Edgar A. Guest
83.) At the end of the day, all you need is hope and strength.
Unknown
84.) In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.
Unknown
85.) If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
86.) It is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.
G.K. Chesterton
87.) Whenever we begin to feel as if we can no longer go on, hope whispers in our ear to remind us that we are strong.
Unknown
Courage And Hope Quotes
88.) Hope is mankind’s greatest weakness and greatest strength.
Unknown
89.) Hope can be a powerful force.
Laini Taylor
90.) When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
Theodore Roosevelt
91.) Have the courage to make the change, the strength to see you through it, and faith that everything will turn out for the best.
Unknown
92.) All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
93.) Within the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
94.) But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid.
Arianna Huffington
95.) A single thread of hope is still a very powerful thing.
Unknown
Losing Hope Quotes
96.) If you’re not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.
John Lewis
97.) Hope is the last thing ever lost.
Italian Proverb
98.) We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
99.) And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Peter O’Toole
100.) The more we search for meaning in what seems hopeless, we realize that our hopelessness is a state of mind, not a reality.
Carol Bright
101.) If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau
102.) 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
103.) It is to hope, though hope was lost.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
104.) Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.
George Weinberg
Short Hope Quotes
105.) Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
106.) He who does not hope to win has already lost.
Jose Joaquin de Olmedo
107.) You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
108.) Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Robert H. Schuller
109.) There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.
J.R.R. Tolkien
110.) All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them.
Magic Johnson
Inspirational Hope Quotes
111.) A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn’t really small if it makes a lost, hopeless sad.
Rachel Simon
112.) 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
113.) Your dream is always counting on you not to ever lose hope because its survival depends on your thoughts.
Unknown
114.) No matter the number of times you fail you must be determined to succeed. You must not lose hope. Don’t stop in your storm. Don’t give up so easily.
Unknown
115.) 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
116.) Our human compassion binds us the one to the other — not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
Nelson Mandela
117.) All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
118.) 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
Inspiring Quote
119.) 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.
Howard Zinn
Positive Hope Quotes
120.) A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change.
Jan Dargatz
121.) 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
122.) Hope is the 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
123.) In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure because then inner strength and toughness is produced.
Fritz Knapp
124.) A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.
Howard Thurman
125.) Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Jonas Salk
Hopeful Insights
126.) 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
Whether you’re facing a personal challenge, feeling overwhelmed by the world, or simply seeking a boost of positivity, these hope quotes offer a glimmer of hope to light your way.
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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