111 Hope Quotes that Will Inspire and Empower You

Hope is the state of mind with positive vibes and thought. When we are hopeful, we have a belief of positive outcomes with respect to circumstances and events in our life or the world at large. In this post we have curated famous hope quotes that will inspire and empower you.

What is Hope?

The definitions of hope includes: “look forward with confidence” or “to want something to happen or be true” or “to cherish a desire with positive anticipation.”

Charles Richard “Rick” Snyder (1944–2006), an American psychologist who specialized in positive psychology was internationally known for his work and study on hope motive.  He coined the “Hope Theory” better known as “Snyder’s Hope Theory”, which emphasizes goal-directed thinking.

Overall n all hope is a powerful vigor which bring in positivity, self confidence, strong belief, courage, perseverance, optimistic vision and go getter approach in human beings. Hope helps people stay motivated during tough times.

Hope Quotes

1. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

2. “When everything else tells you to “give up,” hope whispers try it one more time.” ~ Invajy

3. “H.O.P.E. – Hold On Pain Ends” ~ Anonymous

4. “Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

5. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

6. “Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.” ~ David Orr
7. “We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.” ~ François de la Rochefoucauld
8. “You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.” ~ Maya Angelou
9. “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.” ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
10. “As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by.” ~ Lao Tzu

Quotes about Hope

11. “Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.” ~ Thomas Fuller
12. “Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.” ~ Martin Luther King 
13. “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
14. “Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process.” ~ Brené Brown
15. “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
16. “When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
17. “I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.” ~ Will Smith
18. “Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” ~ Steve Maraboli
19. “He who has never hoped can never despair.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
20. “Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” ~ Robert H. Schuller

Hopeful Quotes

21. “Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.” ~ E.B. White
22. “Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” ~ Stephen King
23. “Hope is the ocean for the river, the sun for trees and the sky for us.” ~ Maxime Legacé
24. “Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.” ~ Samuel Smiles
25. “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…” ~ Alfred Tennyson
26. “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
27. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important things is not to stop questioning.” ~ Albert Einstein
28. “What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.” ~ George Eliot
29. “We need hope, or else we cannot endure.” ~ Sara J. Maas
30. “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.” ~ Francis Bacon

Quotes about Never Losing Hope

31. “I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.” ~ Arthur Miller
32. “Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.” ~ Abraham Cowley
33. “When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you’ll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.” ~ Mariah Carey
34. “Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
35. “He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
36. “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” ~ Winston Churchill
37. “In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.” ~ Victor Hugo
38. “Move on. Where there is a hope, there is a way.” ~ Invajy
39. “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
40. “Hope is a waking dream.”  ~ Aristotle

Have Hope Quotes

41. “All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. “ ~ Alexandre Dumas
42. “Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” ~ Jonas Salk
43. “Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.” ~ George Weinberg
44. “Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
45. “Work hard, hope for the best, leave on god to do the rest” ~ Invajy

46. “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
47. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas Edison
48. “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” ~ Desmond Tutu
49. “To live without hope is to cease to live.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
50. “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

Quotes on Hope

51. “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
52. “This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
53. “Hope is medicine for a soul that’s sick and tired.” ~ Eric Swensson
54. “Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.” ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
55. “Hope and change are hard-fought things.” ~ Michelle Obama
56. “Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” ~ Helen Keller
57. “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
58. “In all things it is better to hope than to despair.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
59. “I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.” ~ Dalai Lama
60. “Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.” ~ Samuel Johnson

Hope Quotes

61.  “Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. 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
62. “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” ~ Nelson Mandela
63. “There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.” ~ Baruch Spinoza
64. “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
65. “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
66. “In an age of hope, men looked up at the night sky and saw ‘the heavens.’ In an age of hopelessness, they call it simply ‘space.’” ~ Peter Kreeft
67. “Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.” ~ William Sloane Coffin
68. “It is because of hope that you suffer. It is through hope that you’ll change things.” ~ Maxime Legacé
69. “However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope.” ~ Stephen Hawking
70. “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” ~ Christopher Reeve

Never Lose Hope Quotes

71. “Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.” ~ G.K. Chesterton
72. “Every cloud has a silver lining.” ~ John Milson
73. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” ~ George Washington Carver
74. “The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.” ~ William Shakespeare
75. “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
76. “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
77. “Hope is the last thing ever lost.” ~ Italian Proverb
78. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius
79. “Hope is a​n embrace of the unknown​.” ~ Rebecca Solnit
80. “Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is a characteristic of all living beings.” ~ Edward Ame

Never Give Up Hope Quotes

81. “While there’s life, there’s hope.” ~ Marcus Tulius Cicero
82. “A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
83. “Hope is a force of nature. Don’t let anyone tell you different.” ~ Jim Butcher
84. “Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.” ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
85. “No matter where you are on your journey, that’s exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
86. “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ~ Pablo Neruda
87. “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” ~ James A. Michener
88. “The darkest hours are just before dawn.” ~ English Proverb
89. “While the heart beats, hope lingers.” ~ Alison Croggon
90. “There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.” ~ C.S. Lewis

Inspirational Hope Quotes

91. “Don’t lose hope. You never know what tomorrow may bring. “ ~ Anonymous
92. “There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.” ~ O.S. Marden
93. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ~ Winston Churchill
94. “The whole world survives on hope.” ~ Invajy
95. “We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.” ~ John Green
96. “Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.” ~ Louisa May Alcott
97. “None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.” ~ Paulo Coelho
98. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
99. “The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.” ~ Alain de Botton
100. “A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope.” ~ Shannon K. Butcher

Short Hope Quotes

101. “Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
102. “Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.” ~ Lao Tzu
103. “Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.” ~ Robert Brault
104. “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
105. “Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
106. “Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust.” ~ Charles Swindoll
107. “I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” ~ Anne Frank
108. “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
109. “In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.” ~ Fritz Knapp
110. “I always entertain great hopes.” ~ Robert Frost
111. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” ~ Helen Keller

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