Hope Quotes

"This too shall pass away."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"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

"Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever."

- Mattie Stepanek

"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."

- George Eliot

"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Some would look at Emily’s life and think that a child born with Down’s syndrome has little hope for a meaningful life. Throw in the diagnosis of leukemia and that little hope turns into no hope whatsoever. I disagree. Emily’s life, with all its imperfections, had great meaning. Because of how many people she touched, I realize that we are far more than what we can accomplish. We are the very thumbprints of God."

- Matt Patterson

"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?"

- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

""There are joys which long to be ours. God sends 10,000 truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.""

- Izaak Walton

"I think it may be admitted as a general and constant rule that among civilized nations the warlike passions will become more rare and less intense in proportion as social conditions are more equal."

- Alexis de Tocqueville

"Wherever there are birds, there is hope."

- Mehmet Murat ildan

""Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.""

- Dale Carnegie

""You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes ... Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing — On his darkest day he believes in spring.""

- Madonna

""Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!'""

- Henrik Ibsen

"For every reason it's not impossible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded."

- Jack Canfield

"God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."

- FS Key

"There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne."

- Bette Davis

"Cancer is only going to be a chapter in your life, not the whole story"

- Joe Wasser

"The darkest hour is only sixty minutes."

- Morris Mandel

"War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace."

- Norman Cousins

"Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a clump of clover by the dairy steps when I was straining the milk and never thinking of clovers. Cousin Jimmy says that is the way luck always comes, and it is no use to look for it."

- L. M. Montgomery

"One leaf is for hope, and one is for faith, And one is for love, you know, And God put another one in for luck — If you search you will find where they grow."

- Ella Higginson

"O little four-leaf clover With leaves of emerald hue, I'd roam the wide fields over To get a glimpse of you. More sought than any flower That grows in field or dell, Luck upon thy leaves has power, Fate has bound thee with a spell."

- Mary D. McIntosh

"Like a flower seed, face your darkest days with courage and acceptance. Your time to blossom is coming."

"Roses lose their petals. But they bloom again."

"Thunderstorms can last an afternoon. Hurricanes can last for hours. But rain is only temporary; you'll have sunshine again."

"When you think there is no hope and you feel broken, that is where the window to get better is. When there is nothing left to give, it’s time to hand it over."

"Don’t stay too long in the shame-filled grounds of relapse. Fertile soil awaits you in your recovery."

"Let this Sunday be a moment to explore paths less trodden and marvel in hope’s embrace."