Hope Quotes

"You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better."

- Yann Martel

"Mature hope requires both a clear intention and a simultaneous letting go."

- Frank Ostaseski

"There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst."

- Stephen King

"That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man."

- Charles Bukowski

"Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulant to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."

- Erich Fromm

"We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming—well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate."

- Amy Tan

"Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee."

- Nicholas Sparks

"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

"The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"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

"Fear never builds the future, but hope does."

- Joe Biden

"There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Hope is that 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

"Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

- Stephen King

"We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken."

- John Green

"Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope."

- Helen Keller

"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…"

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"If April showers should come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May."

- Buddy de Sylva

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it."

- Hal Borland

"Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer."

- Anita Krizzan

"Sweet April showers do bring May flowers."

- Thomas Tusser

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

- Lady Bird Johnson

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced."

"Tomorrow will be beautiful"

"The best is yet to come"

"April showers bring forth May flowers."