100 Inspirational Quotes About Hope and Strength to Uplift Your Spirit

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

- Peter Marshall

"We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't."

- Thomas A. Edison

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."

- Maya Angelou

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

- Lao Tzu

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."

- Jodi Picoult

"It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment."

- Bram Stoker

"We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."

- Isabel Allende

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

"No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear."

- Greg Kincaid

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."

- J.K. Rowling

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

- Kahlil Gibran

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

"You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice."

- Bob Marley

"Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"Someone I once loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."

- Mary Oliver

"Courage isn't having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"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

"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 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

"Hope is the last thing ever lost."

- Italian proverb

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

- Leonard Cohen

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Sarah J. Maas

"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

"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

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

- Amy Tan

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

- Anne Frank

"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

"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

"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

"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. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you."

- C. JoyBell C.

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

- Amanda Gorman

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."

- Victor Hugo

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Magic Johnson

"We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones."

- Ed Markey

"It’s the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it."

- Frank Warren

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"Hope is the 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

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

- Albert Einstein

"You are not here merely to make a living, you are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."

- Woodrow Wilson

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

- Samuel Smiles

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

- Robert H. Schuller

"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

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"Our human compassion binds us the one to the other — not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Joe Biden

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- Jonas Salk

"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

"There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness."

- Pearl S. Buck

"You are full of unshaped dreams. You are laden with beginnings…There is hope in you…"

- Lola Ridge

"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

"A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you've lost everything, there is hope."

- Geraldine Solon

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Hope never abandons you; you abandon it."

- George Weinberg

"We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: Hope."

- Manel Loureiro

"Hope. It’s like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It’s a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it’s the only thing in the world keeping me afloat."

- Tahereh Mafi

"Everything that is done in this world is done by hope."

- Martin Luther

"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster."

- Dalai Lama XIV

"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."

- Howard Zinn

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

- John Green

"We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."

- George Eliot

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."

- Rachel Carson

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life."

- Alexandre Dumas

"Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.'"

- Alexandre Dumas

"It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been by his weakened voice. "We're nearly there ... I can Apparate us both back ... don't worry ..." "I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you."

- J.K. Rowling

"To love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again."

- Ellen Bass

"A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again."

- C. JoyBell C.

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

- G.K. Chesterton

"It's your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life's story will develop."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."

- Winston Churchill

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

- Maya Angelou

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

- Ambrose Redmoon

"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't – surrender to events with hope."

- Alain de Botton

"It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it."

- Epictetus

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

- Christopher Reeve

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Hope is a waking dream."

- Aristotle

"Once you choose hope, everything is possible."

- Christopher Reeve

"In a time of destruction, create something."

- Maxine Hong Kingston

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

- Charles M. Schulz

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

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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

- Cormac McCarthy

"We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss."

- Cassandra Clare

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."

- Gustave Flaubert

"The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it is just the full dimensionality of your own capacity to feel that returns."

- Susan Griffin

"If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life."

- Haruki Murakami

"Love without hope will not survive, love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and faith."

- Toba Beta

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

- Catherine Pulsifer

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

- John Guare

"A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change."

- Jan Dargatz

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

"Whether you’ve seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise."

- Martha Beck

"You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."

- Audrey Hepburn

"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

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."

- Edmund Hillary

"Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."

- Lao Tzu

"Remember: Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up."

- Rocky Balboa

"And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear."

- Paulo Coelho

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong."

- Muhammad Ali

"If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Anne Frank

"Hope is a passion for the possible."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Hope is the only thing stronger than fear."

- President Snow

"Hope lives in those who believe in it."

- Buddha

"Amidst the darkness, light persists."

- Gandhi

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Buddha

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Pablo Neruda

"Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."

- Markus Zusak

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

- Yusef Komunyakaa

"We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine."

- Mark Nepo

"Courage is found in unlikely places."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- John Guare

"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems."

- Gever Tulley

"Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears."

- Demi Lovato

"We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free."

- Kavita Ramdas

"What makes you different or weird, that's your strength."

- Meryl Streep

"We will either find a way, or make one."

- Anibal Barca

"Grief and resilience live together."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Steve Maraboli

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"Relax. It’s going to be OK, girl!"

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

- Edward S. Ame

"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."

- Ralph Ellison

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

- Terri Guillemets

"A brave man acknowledges the strength of others."

- Veronica Roth

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

- Emanuel Cleaver

"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

"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Brad Henry

"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."

- Toni Morrison

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