50 Hope-Inspired Quotes to Lift Your Spirits

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."

- Romans 15:13

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

- Stephen King

"But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."

- Isaiah 40:31

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

- Jonas Salk

"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

"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

"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

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

- Helen Keller

"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

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- Joe Biden

"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

"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

"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

"Hope, said Aristotle, is the dream of a waking man."

- Aristotle

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

- Nicholas Sparks

"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

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

- Amy Tan

"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 are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

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

- Charles Bukowski

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

- Stephen King

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

- Frank Ostaseski

"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

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

- John Green

"When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible."

- Salman Rushdie

"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope."

- William Shakespeare

"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart."

- Emanuel Cleaver

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

- Desmond Tutu

"Hope is a waking dream."

- Aristotle

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

"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

"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

- Samuel Smiles

"When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope."

- Pittacus Lore

"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. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up."

- Anne Lamott

"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

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

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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

- Magic Johnson

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

- John Green

"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

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

- Albert Einstein

"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

"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"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

"The world needs less heat and more light. It needs less of the heat of anger, revenge, retaliation, and more of the light of ideas, faith, courage, aspiration, joy, love and hope."

- Wilfred Peterson

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

- Maya Angelou

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

- Jeremiah 29:11

"Hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love."

- 1 Corinthians 13:13

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

- Anne Frank

"Once you choose hope, everything is possible."

- Christopher Reeve

"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

"‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’"

- Jeremiah 29:11

"To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory."

- Colossians 1:27

"You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety."

- Job 11:18-19

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

- Brad Henry

"You can cut all the flowers, but you can’t keep Spring from coming."

- Pablo Neruda

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it the Present."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you are struggling and start thinking about giving up, remember the power of hope."

- Michelle Obama

"Stay hopeful; you never know what tomorrow will bring."

- Buddha

"Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will come to you in abundance."

- Steve Maraboli

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

"No matter where you are on your journey, this is exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Never give up. Have hope. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Hope lives in those who believe in it."

- Buddha

"Hope is a passion for the possible."

- Søren Kierkegaard

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

- Winston Churchill

"You’re full of unshaped dreams. You’re laden with beginnings. There’s hope for you."

- Lola Ridge

"Do not fight darkness; bring the light, and darkness will disappear."

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"We can easily forgive a kid afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

- Plato

"The birds of hope are everywhere; listen to them."

- Terri Guillemets

"Relax. It’s going to be OK, girl!"

- Oprah Winfrey

"Amidst the darkness, light persists."

- Gandhi

"I knew life began when I stood in the dark, looking out into the night."

- Yusef Komunyakaa

"Hope is the only thing stronger than fear."

- President Snow

"Calm minds bring inner peace and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health."

- Dalai Lama

"The real reason you feel hopeless now is not because of your situation—it’s your reaction to it. Change your thoughts. Change your life."

"Hope is understanding that nothing’s permanent, not even the troubles that scar you. One of the best moments in your life will be when you finally have the courage to let go of the things you can’t change. Because life is too short to spend another day at war with yourself."

"Whenever you feel like losing hope, ask yourself this: what if everything I’m going through now is preparing me for what I asked for?"

"Tell yourself every day this: no matter how hard it is, no matter how hard it gets, I’m going to make it."

"Take a deep breath. Everything will be okay in the end. And if it’s not okay, it’s not the end."

"No matter what has happened in your life, the future is better than what happened in the past; the future is better than the present; it will always be."

"Never forget all the times you have pushed even when you felt you couldn’t. All the mornings you got out of bed no matter how hard it was. All the times, you wanted to give up but didn’t. Never forget how much strength you’ve gained along the way."

"Hope is one thing that can help us get through the darkest times."

"Hope is important; it can make the present moment more bearable. If you have hope that tomorrow will be better, you can get through the difficult moments of today."

"Everything will turn out okay, even if it feels hard right now. Hold onto hope; hold onto yourself. Whatever you’re going through will not stay, but you will."

"You may be tried and fed up, but there’s strength within you, even if you don’t see it now. So Keep fighting."

"When you give up, that’s when your doors close; for as long as you haven’t given up, your doors will never close."

"Don’t ever lose hope. When the sun goes down, the stars come out."

"In all things, it’s better to hope than to despair."

"Nothing’s forever in this world, and that’s why we have every reason to be hopeful."

"As long as you feel the pain, you’re still alive. And as long as you keep trying, there is still hope."

"God is never late but on time. All it takes is faith and trust."

"Have Hope. Hold on. Pain ends."

"When God puts you through difficulty, He also grants you the strength to get through it. Hold on a little longer; God is smiling at you because He knows that your relief is near."

"Your fate has been written with the ink of His love and sealed with His mercy. You are exactly where He wants you to be. So fear not, place your trust in Him and have hope in His plan."

"Whenever you feel like losing hope, remember that God’s plans are better than your dreams."

"No matter what you’re going through, no matter what you’re dealing with, even if it doesn’t look like it’s going the way you want it to go, even if everything seems to be falling apart around you, God is in control. Have faith."

"Never lose hope. Just when you think it’s over, God will send you a miracle."

"Yesterday is gone. Forget and never mention it. Tomorrow is not here, that which has not come, that which is yet to come. Be happy now, and don’t waste your life."

"When you get what you want, that’s God’s direction. But God's protection is when you don’t get what you want."

"When God is all you have, then you have what you only need."

"The will of God will never take you to where His grace will not protect you."

"Nothing can hurt you when God decides to save you."

"Just because things don’t seem like they’re happening, doesn’t mean they are not happening. If things aren’t happening as fast as you want them to, you can be certain that divine orchestration is at play."

"When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world!"

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