Hope is one of the most important mental traits in life and is a feeling that will help you get rid of the most difficult events in your life. No matter how difficult, hope involves the will to get there, and different ways to get there. Inspirational hope quotes will instantly empower and lift you up to get you through a tough time.
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Famous Hope Quotes
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. Brad Henry
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. Bill Keane
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
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
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. Winston Churchill
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
Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. Jonas Salk
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
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
I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars. Stephenie Meyer
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
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 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
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
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. Maya Angelou
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
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
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
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. Gustave Flaubert
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
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
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
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. Napoleon Bonaparte
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. William Faulkner
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
Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. Margaret Mitchell
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
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love without hope will not survive, love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and faith. Toba Beta
If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him. Paulo Coelho
How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive? Nicholas Sparks
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Alexander Pope
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
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein
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 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
Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever. Roy T. Bennett
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
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming. Pablo Neruda
Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering it will be happier. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of. Markus Zusak
In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced. Fritz Knapp
It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday. John Guare
A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change. Jan Dargatz
I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you’re going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you. C. JoyBell C.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller
In a time of destruction, create something. Maxine Hong Kingston
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
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
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them. Magic Johnson
I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. Anne Frank
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
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
We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones. Ed Markey
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
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. Samuel Smiles
Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle
A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope. Howard Thurman
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
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. Desmond Tutu
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Amy Tan
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. Bernard Williams
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
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. Robert H. Schuller
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are. Fernando Pessoa
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self. Arthur Miller
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. David Nicholls
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. Robert Green Ingersoll
It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars. Richard Evans
Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart. Emanuel Cleaver
If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person. Haruki Murakami
Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope. Charles Lindbergh
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. L.M. Montgomery
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope. Charles M. Schulz
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.
