50 Inspirational Quotes about Hope

Hope is a powerful thing. If you’re looking for a little extra inspiration, you’ve come to the right place. In this post, we have curated some famous quotes about hope that will inspire and empower you.

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Quotes about Hope in Life

1. “There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.” – Orison Swett Marden

2. “Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” – Roy T. Bennett

3. “Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” – Robert H. Schuller

4. “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

5. “I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.” – Benjamin Disraeli

6. “To live without Hope is to Cease to live.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

7. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

8. “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

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

10. “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu

11. “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

12. “Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” – Martin Luther

13. “Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.” – Ed Bradley

14. “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

15. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

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16. “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela

17. “It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.” – Orison Swett Marden

18. “Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.” – Norman Vincent Peale

19. “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

20. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

21. “While there’s life, there’s hope.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

22. “There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

23. “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

24. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J. M. Barrie

25. “Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.” – Henry Rollins

26. “Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.” – John Wayne

27. “Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.” – Pliny the Elder

28. “Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

29. “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

30. “Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.” – Martha Beck

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31. “Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.” – Vaclav Havel

32. “There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.” – Jonas Salk

33. “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

34. “Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.” – Bradley Whitford

35. “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes

36. “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

37. “Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle

38. “Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – Joseph Addison

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

40. “However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope.” – Stephen Hawking

41. “Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.” – Epictetus

42. “Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process.” – Brene Brown

43. “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

44. “As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by.” – Lao Tzu

45. “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

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46. “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

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

48. “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

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

50. “This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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