A Collection of Hope Inspirational Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment."

- Evan Esar

"Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another."

- Elie Wiesel

"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

- Emily Dickinson

"What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing nothing is a surprise to God."

- Rick Warren

"Choose to be ready for eternity—today. When the worst that can happen to you leads to the best that can happen to you, fear is vanquished and hope reigns supreme."

- Jim Dennison

"All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them."

- Magic Johnson

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm."

- Emily Dickinson

"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."

- Dalai Lama

"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

"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

- Robert H. Schuller

"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man."

- Pliny the Elder

"Hope is patience with the lamp lit."

- Tertullian

"And sometimes, against all odds, against all logic, we still hope."

- Ellen Pompeo

"A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope."

- Charles M. Schulz

"Hope is a waking dream."

- Aristotle

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning."

- Brad Henry

"We need hope, or else we cannot endure."

- Sarah J. Maas

"When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

"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

"To live without hope is to cease to live."

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is a characteristic of all living beings."

- Edward S. Ame

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

- Winston Churchill

"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 lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."

- Jonas Salk

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

"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

"But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."

- Desmond Tutu

"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

"There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope."

- Bernard Williams

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

- Stephen King

"A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope."

- Howard Thurman

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

"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

"Be faithful in small things, because it is in them that your strength lies."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Nicholas Sparks

"There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t."

- John Green

"This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Hope is a force of nature. Don’t let anyone tell you different."

- Jim Butcher

"Hope is the ocean for the river, the sun for trees and the sky for us."

- Maxime Lagacé

"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect."

- Jane Austen

"When you stop hoping you start settling."

- Valorie Burton

"Hope is an embrace of the unknown."

- Rebecca Solnit

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Hope is the dream of a waking man."

- Pliny the Elder

"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

"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming."

- Pablo Neruda

"I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains."

- Anne Frank

"Once you choose hope, anything’s possible."

- Christopher Reeve

"If there’s life, there is hope."

- Stephen Hawking

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in."

- Leonard Cohen

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."

- Samuel Smiles

"Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate."

- G. K. Chesterton

"Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out."

- Vaclav Havel

"The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination."

- Marion Zimmer Bradley

"Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it."

- Albert Camus

"You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope."

- Thomas Merton

"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."

- C.H. Spurgeon

"Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people."

- Tena Desae

"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

"The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely."

- Leo Buscaglia

"And books, they offer one hope — that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved."

- Anne Rice

"Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There’s no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars."

- Carrie Hope Fletcher

"Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process."

- Brené Brown

"Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Hope is not dependent on peace in the land, justice in the world, and success in the business. Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown."

- Henri Nouwen

"Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature."

- Steve Maraboldi

"Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible."

- Rumi

"Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"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

"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

"Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."

- Helen Keller

"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

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."

- Orison Swett Marden

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds, and diamonds are made under pressure."

- Peter Marshall

"When you go through deep waters I will be with you."

- Isaiah 43:2

"Let nothing trouble you, let nothing frighten you. All things are passing; God never changes. Patience obtains all things. He who possesses God lacks nothing. God alone suffices."

- St. Teresa of Avila

"It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday."

- John Guare

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"Every day think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it."

- Dalai Lama XIV

"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour."

- Aristotle

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape."

- Charles Dickens

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope."

- Stephen Hawking

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already."

- J.K. Rowling

"You have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me."

- Arianna Huffington

"The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved. Women who live bravely, both tender and fierce. Women of indomitable will."

- Amy Tenney

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

- Charlotte Brontë

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

- Charles Dickens

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I want to be."

- Lao Tzu

"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."

- Charles Bukowski

"A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink."

- Gina Carey

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

- Gloria Steinem

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."

- Elbert Hubbard

"You may see me struggle, but never will you see me quit. There’s a whole lot of awesomeness out there in this world."

- Rich Lieberman

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

- President John Quincy Adams

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

- Seneca

"You could certainly say that I’ve never underestimated myself, there’s nothing wrong with being ambitious."

- Angela Merkel

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

"A favorite quote: "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.""

- Helen Keller

"When it looks like the Sun ain’t gonna shine anymore, God will put a rainbow in the cloud."

- African American Spiritual Unknown

"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway."

- John Wayne

"The forces that are for you are greater than the forces against you."

- Joel Osteen

"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."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

- Alexander Pope

"Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."

- José N. Harris

"God didn’t promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for tears, and light for the way."

- Author Unknown

"We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us."

- Virginia Satir

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."

- Anne Sexton

"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

"When you think your life has too much suffering, listen to the stories of others. You really won’t want to swap places!"

- Alice Laurendine

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"If there is hope, there is life."

- PMA

"You don’t throw a whole life away just because it’s banged up a little."

- The Seabisquit Movie

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

- William James

"If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath."

- Amit Ray

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live."

- Auguste Rodin

"You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

- Michael Phelps

"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it."

- Bill Cosby

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success."

- James Cameron

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!"

- Dolly Parton

"When placed in command, take charge."

- Norman Schwarzkopf

"The Pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."

- John Maxwell

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

- Anne Lamott

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency."

- Natalie Goldberg

"Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing."

- Denis Waitley

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

- Ralph Nader

"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."

- Margaret Mitchell

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Hope is the last thing ever lost."

- Italian Proverb

"Hope deferred makes the heart sick…"

- Proverbs 13:12

"You are master of the moments of your life."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for one another?"

- George Eliot

"You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him."

- St. Teresa of Avila

"Hope is the heartbeat of the soul."

- Michelle Horst

"Hope is a gift from God. Without it, where would we be."

"The sun’ll come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there’ll be sun! Just thinkin’ about tomorrow clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow ’til there’s none!"

"I believe in the sun even when it’s not shining, I believe in love even when I don’t feel it, I believe in God even when He is silent."

- Unknown

"You never know how strong you are until strong is the only choice you have."

"It's not about what we have went thru or are going to go thru it’s about today…endless hope."

"Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, But Today is a Gift – That’s Why It’s called “The Present”"

"It’s darkest just before sunrise."

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."

"Every day without a loved one is a day closer to forever with them."

"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. But learning to dance in the rain."

"Let your faith be bigger than your fear."

"God is Still In Charge! We Are Coming Out As Pure Gold! Money Can Not Buy!"

- Unknown

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers!"

"God is our refuge and strength always."

"To arise or to refrain is a choice but there is splendor in rising."

"God is bigger than any obstacle in your path."

- Unknown

"Adversity doesn’t build character, it reveals it."

"Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart."

"A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everybody else."

- Unknown

"I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do."

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit."

"The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

"Hope is the bridge between despair and faith."

"Hope is the light that guides us through the darkness."

"Hope is the thing that is always there, even when we cannot see it."

"The phrase should be: God (your higher power) doesn’t give you more than you can handle….he also gives you the space and tools to kick, scream, rant, rave, cry buckets of tears, find solitude, and all else while wrapped within his arms. You truly are not alone, no matter how dark it feels."

"Everything we might want in life is on the other side of fear."

"If you can live this moment, if you can be here this moment, then everything takes care of itself."

"Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of bread."

"Hope is praying for rain, but faith is bringing an umbrella."

"A smile doesn’t cost a cent, but draws a lot of interest."

"Hope is the anchor of the soul."

"There are 2 days in every week that we shouldn’t worry about. Yesterday, today and tomorrow. Yesterday is in the past and is gone forever. All the money in the world can not bring yesterday back. Tomorrow is in the future, beyond our immediate control. Tomorrow is not promised to us and we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is yet unborn. That leaves only one day – today. Today is in the present and is the 1st day of the rest of our lives. Anyone can fight the battle of what is happening and the challenges of just one day. It is only when you and I have the burdens in those two awful eternities – yesterday and tomorrow that we break down. It is not the experience of today that drive men mad. It is the remorse or bitterness for something which happened yesterday and the dread of what tomorrow may bring, Let us therefore live out one day at a time."

- Unknown

"Hope is the fuel that drives us forward."

"Hope is the promise of a better tomorrow."

"Hope is the light that shines in the darkest of times."

"Hope is the last ship anchored on the shore of suffering."

- Unknown

"Hope is the whisper of the heart that says, 'You can do it.'"

"God will not give you more than you can handle."

"Grief is love with no place to go."

"Hope makes the earth bearable until heavens garments are wearable."