Finding hope can be a powerful way to move forward, especially during uncertain times. These 60 hope quotes offer words of encouragement, resilience, and optimism that can help you see a brighter tomorrow. Let these quotes remind you of the strength that hope can bring to everyday life.
Hope Quotes
- “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” — Desmond Tutu
- “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” — Suzanne Collins
- We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” — Christopher Reeve
- “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” — George Washington Carver
- “Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.” — Pliny the Elder
- “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
- “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” — Albert Einstein
- “All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.” — Alexandre Dumas
- “Hope is the dream of a waking man.” — Aristotle
- “Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success.” — Samuel Smiles
- “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.'” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “In all things it is better to hope than to despair.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.” — G.K. Chesterton
- “Hope is a waking dream.” — Aristotle
- “When the world says, ‘Give up,’ Hope whispers, ‘Try it one more time.'” — Unknown
- “Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.” — Samuel Smiles
- “Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.” — George Weinberg
- “Walk on with hope in your heart, and you’ll never walk alone.” — Shah Rukh Khan
- “Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process.” — Brené Brown
- “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen
- “Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.” — Samuel Johnson
- “Hope costs nothing.” — Colette
- “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.” — Anne Lamott
- “Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” — Helen Keller
- “Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.” — Helen Keller
- “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.” — Francis Bacon
- “The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.” — William Shakespeare
- “Hope is the last thing ever lost.” — Italian Proverb
- “The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for.” — Barbara Kingsolver
- “Hope is patience with the lamp lit.” — Tertullian
- “Hope is a beautiful thing. It gives us peace and strength, and keeps us going when all else is lost.” — Unknown
- “Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.” — Elie Wiesel
- “The darkest hours are just before dawn.” — English Proverb
- Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us.” — Barack Obama
- “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
- “Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.” — Orison Swett Marden
- “Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.” — William Sloane Coffin
- “Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “Hope is a light within us that will never fade as long as we keep it alive.” — Unknown
- “Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.” — Martin Luther
- “Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.” — Victor Hugo
- “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
- “Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.” — Thomas Fuller
- “When you stop hoping, you start settling.” — Valorie Burton
- “Hope will never be silent.” — Harvey Milk
- “To live without hope is to cease to live.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.” — Thomas Fuller
- “Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” — Robert Green Ingersoll
- “When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement.” — James Allen
- “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
- “Hope is the fuel for life’s journey.” — Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all.” — G.K. Chesterton
- “Hope is not pretending that troubles don’t exist. It is the trust that they will not last forever, that hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome.” — Unknown
- “Hope is a force of nature.” — Jim Butcher
- “Hope is a talent like any other.” — Storm Jameson
- “Hope sees the potential of tomorrow despite the trials of today.” — Unknown
- “It is because of hope that you suffer. It is through hope that you’ll change things.” — Maxime Lagacé
