285 Hope Quotes
1. "Once you choose hope, anything’s possible." (Christopher Reeve) Click to tweet
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2. "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
3. "Everything that is done in this world is done by hope." (Martin Luther) Click to tweet
4. "I dwell in possibility." (Emily Dickinson) Click to tweet
5. "May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." (Nelson Mandela) Click to tweet
6. "It is because of hope that you suffer. It is through hope that you’ll change things." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
7. "If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment." (Henry David Thoreau) Click to tweet
8. "Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." (Desmond Tutu) Click to tweet
9. "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
10. "There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for." (J.R.R. Tolkien) Click to tweet
11. "Every cloud has a silver lining." (John Milson) Click to tweet
12. "While there’s life, there’s hope." (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Click to tweet
13. "The darkest hours are just before dawn." (English Proverb) Click to tweet
14. "Hope is the ocean for the river, the sun for trees and the sky for us." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
15. "I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains." (Anne Frank) Click to tweet
16. "Only in the darkness can you see the stars." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
17. "Our future is our confidence and self-esteem." (Tupac) Click to tweet
18. "In all things it is better to hope than to despair." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Click to tweet
19. "Walk on with hope in your heart, and you’ll never walk alone." (Shah Rukh Khan) Click to tweet
20. "There is nothing like a dream to create the future." (Victor Hugo) Click to tweet
21. "Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
22. "If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) Click to tweet
23. "Hope never abandons you, you abandon it." (George Weinberg) Click to tweet
24. "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) Click to tweet
25. "Hope is but the dream of those who wake." (Matthew Prior) Click to tweet
26. "However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope." (Stephen Hawking) Click to tweet
27. "Hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things, and good things never die." (Andy Dufresne) Click to tweet
28. "Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all… as long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength." (G.K. Chesterton) Click to tweet
29. "In the unlikely story that is america, there has never been anything false about hope." (Barack Obama) Click to tweet
30. "I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." (Dalai Lama) Click to tweet
31. "I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best." (Benjamin Disraeli) Click to tweet
32. "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 them." (Louisa May Alcott) Click to tweet
33. "Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower." (Shigenori Kameoka) Click to tweet
34. "Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you." (Hafiz of Persia) Click to tweet
35. "Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day." (E.B. White) Click to tweet
36. "All human eyes have longing in them." (Ernesto Cardenal) Click to tweet
37. "Where there is no vision, there is no hope." (George Washington Carver) Click to tweet
38. "Hope is passion for what is possible." (Soren Kierkegaard) Click to tweet
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39. "Hope is a?n embrace of the unknown?" (Rebecca Solnit) Click to tweet
40. "Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is a characteristic of all living beings. Edward s." (Ame) Click to tweet
41. "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) Click to tweet
42. "Hope is a double-edged sword. Use it and you’ll suffer until you reach your goal. Don’t use it you’ll fall into despair." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
43. "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) Click to tweet
44. "Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate." (G.K. Chesterton) Click to tweet
45. "Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion." (Thomas Fuller) Click to tweet
46. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." (Confucius) Click to tweet
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47. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." (Confucius) Click to tweet
48. "Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows." (Helen Keller) Click to tweet
49. "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." (Mahatma Gandhi) Click to tweet
50. "I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, i cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward." (Nelson Mandela) Click to tweet
51. "You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
52. "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars." (Norman Vincent Peale) Click to tweet
53. "Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
54. "Hope is the poor man’s bread." (Gary Herbert) Click to tweet
55. "Hope is a waking dream." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
56. "To live without hope is to cease to live." (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) Click to tweet
57. "Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something. Not even me." (Chris Gardner) Click to tweet
58. "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way i know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
59. "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) Click to tweet
60. "When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on." (Theodore Roosevelt) Click to tweet
61. "All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can i know? 2. What ought i to do? 3. What may i hope?" (Immanuel Kant) Click to tweet
62. "This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
63. "Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." (Thomas Edison) Click to tweet
64. "The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." (Winston Churchill) Click to tweet
65. "In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?" (Barack Obama) Click to tweet
66. "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.) Click to tweet
67. "You get in life what you have the courage to ask for." (Oprah Winfrey) Click to tweet
68. "Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed." (Michael Jackson) Click to tweet
69. "The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope." (William Shakespeare) Click to tweet
70. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet
71. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." (Winston Churchill) Click to tweet
72. "If you are going through hell, keep going." (Winston Churchill) Click to tweet
73. "For every dark night there’s a brighter day." (Tupac) Click to tweet
74. "Kid, you’ll move mountains!" (Dr. Seuss) Click to tweet
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75. "Hope is the last thing ever lost." (Italian Proverb) Click to tweet
76. "A leader is a dealer in hope." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Click to tweet
77. "The most hopeful and the most enduring will prevail." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
78. "Yes we can!" (Barack Obama) Click to tweet
79. "Hope and change are hard-fought things." (Michelle Obama) Click to tweet
80. "A drowning man will clutch at a straw." (Thomas Moore) Click to tweet
81. "Hope springs eternal in the human breast." (Alexander Pope) Click to tweet
82. "What we do now echoes in eternity." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
83. "Injustice never rules forever." (Seneca) Click to tweet
84. "Oft hope is born when all is forlorn." (J.R.R. Tolkien) Click to tweet
85. "Hope is medicine for a soul that’s sick and tired." (Eric Swensson) Click to tweet
86. "We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light." (Albert Pike) Click to tweet
87. "Hope is a passion for the possible." (Soren Kierkegaard) Click to tweet
88. "This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today." (David Nicholls) Click to tweet
89. "Hope costs nothing." (Colette) Click to tweet
90. "Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up." (David Orr) Click to tweet
91. "Hope keeps you alive." (Lauren Oliver) Click to tweet
92. "I accept the universe!" (Margaret Fuller) Click to tweet
93. "All things are difficult before they are easy." (Thomas Fuller) Click to tweet
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94. "I inhale hope with every breath i take." (Sharon Kay Penman) Click to tweet
95. "However long the night, the dawn will break." (African Proverb) Click to tweet
96. "Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future." (Robert H. Schuller) Click to tweet
97. "Learn to ask even when you feel weak. Learn to work even if you don’t want to. Learn to hope even when the odds are against you." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
98. "We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn’t want to be ordinary." (Robert M. Drake) Click to tweet
99. "A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, i am living up to my full potential?" (Jane Wagner) Click to tweet
100. "Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity." (Robert G. Ingersoll) Click to tweet
101. "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) Click to tweet
102. "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) Click to tweet
103. "You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." (William Faulkner) Click to tweet
104. "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) Click to tweet
105. "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) Click to tweet
106. "Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles." (Samuel Smiles) Click to tweet
107. "Part 1. Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect." (Thomas Merton) Click to tweet
108. "Part 2. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything." (Thomas Merton) Click to tweet
109. "The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It’s enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrows currently assail us aren’t worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon." (Joni Eareckson Tada) Click to tweet
110. "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy." (Francis of Assisi) Click to tweet
111. "You are full of unshaped dreams, you are laden with beginnings, there is hope in you." (Lola Ridge) Click to tweet
112. "Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future." (Kennedy) Click to tweet
113. "A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope. Shannon k." (Butcher) Click to tweet
114. "Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something. The more futile, the more useless, the more irrelevant and incomprehensible an act of rebellion is, the vaster and more potent hope becomes." (Chris Hedges) Click to tweet
115. "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And i believe that love is stronger than death." (Robert Fulghum) Click to tweet
116. "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." (Robert H. Goddard) Click to tweet
117. "Rosa sat so martin could walk, martin walked so barack could run, barack ran so we all can fly."Click to tweet
118. "I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution." (Werner von Braun) Click to tweet
119. "We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken." (John Green) Click to tweet
120. "A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope." (Thomas Carlyle) Click to tweet
121. "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" (Percy Bysshe Shelley) Click to tweet
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122. "Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions." (Jodi Picoult) Click to tweet
123. "The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep." (E. Joseph Cossman) Click to tweet
124. "To hear the phrase “our only hope” always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn’t work, there is nothing left." (Lemony Snicket) Click to tweet
125. "Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." (G.K. Chesterton) Click to tweet
126. "People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them." (Flannery O’Connor) Click to tweet
127. "Got no check books, got no banks. Still i’d like to express my thanks – i got the sun in the morning and the moon at night." (Irving Berlin) Click to tweet
128. "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) Click to tweet
129. "Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!" (Dr. Seuss) Click to tweet
130. "Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light." (Dorothy Thompson) Click to tweet
131. "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." (Audrey Hepburn) Click to tweet
132. "Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness." (Anne Frank) Click to tweet
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133. "Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper." (W. Rawley) Click to tweet
134. "In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
135. "In the midst of winter, i found there was, within me, an invincible summer." (Albert Camus) Click to tweet
136. "A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future." (Albert Camus) Click to tweet
137. "Hope comes from dreams. Dreams come from ambition. Ambition comes from the unwillingness to accept the facts." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
138. "Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us." (Samuel Smiles) Click to tweet
139. "What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life." (Emil Brunner) Click to tweet
140. "Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be." (Don Quixote) Click to tweet
141. "There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow." (O.S. Marden) Click to tweet
142. "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) Click to tweet
143. "The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." (Will Durant) Click to tweet
144. "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) Click to tweet
145. "Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure." (Abraham Cowley) Click to tweet
146. "He who has never hoped can never despair." (George Bernard Shaw) Click to tweet
147. "Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams." (S.A. Sachs) Click to tweet
148. "Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers." (Robert Ingersoll) Click to tweet
149. "To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death." (Pearl S. Buck) Click to tweet
150. "Repentance is another name for aspiration." (Henry Ward Beecher) Click to tweet
151. "We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears." (Francois de La Rochefoucauld) Click to tweet
152. "The oil of hope makes life’s machinery run smoothly." (James Lendall Basford) Click to tweet
153. "In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet." (Albert Schweitzer) Click to tweet
154. "Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering." (D. Morgenstern) Click to tweet
155. "Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened." (Charles Haddon Spurgeon) Click to tweet
156. "By perseverance the snail reached the ark." (Charles Haddon Spurgeon) Click to tweet
157. "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) Click to tweet
158. "Sadness is but a wall between two gardens." (Kahlil Gibran) Click to tweet
159. "You’ll stop hurting when you stop hoping." (Guillaume Musso) Click to tweet
160. "It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable." (Robert Brault) Click to tweet
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161. "What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." (Oscar Wilde) Click to tweet
162. "If you never try something new, you never learn. If you never create, you never contribute. If you never hope, you never change." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
163. "Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process." (Brené Brown) Click to tweet
164. "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) Click to tweet
165. "Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. Hope without critical thinking is naïveté." (Maria Popova) Click to tweet
166. "Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option." (James Cameron) Click to tweet
167. "When you stop hoping you start settling." (Valorie Burton) Click to tweet
168. "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." (Epicurus) Click to tweet
169. "The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope." (Samuel Johnson) Click to tweet
170. "The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man." (T.S. Eliot) Click to tweet
171. "Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do." (Pope John XXIII) Click to tweet
172. "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) Click to tweet
173. "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) Click to tweet
174. "The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts." (Alain de Botton) Click to tweet
175. "To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect." (Jane Austen) Click to tweet
176. "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”." (Alexander Dumas) Click to tweet
177. "Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation." (Alan Cohen) Click to tweet
178. "All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, moses, ruth, mary, jesus, rumi, gandhi, and dorothy day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like." (Henri Nouwen) Click to tweet
179. "Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible." (William Sloane Coffin) Click to tweet
180. "Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment." (William Penn) Click to tweet
181. "There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope." (Baruch Spinoza) Click to tweet
182. "Things start out as hopes and end up as habits." (Lillian Hellman) Click to tweet
183. "If it were not for hope, the heart would break." (Thomas Fuller) Click to tweet
184. "Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which i rebuilt my life." (J.K. Rowling) Click to tweet
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185. "Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about." (Winston Churchill) Click to tweet
186. "Never give up. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it." (Catherine Pulsifer) Click to tweet
187. "Fools give up after the first blow. The wise after the second. The wiser never." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
188. "As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet
189. "To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful ‘magic skills’ that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition." (Elizabeth Gilbert) Click to tweet
190. "All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope." (Alexander Dumas) Click to tweet
191. "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." (Harriet Beecher Stowe) Click to tweet
192. "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) Click to tweet
193. "Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." (James A. Michener) Click to tweet
194. "I knew life began where i stood in the dark, looking out into the light." (Yusef Komunyakaa) Click to tweet
195. "Patience and fortitude conquer all things." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
196. "Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: we shall try again and again, and we are bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but we have to defy them. [… ] the goal is ahead of you. If you do not give up, you are bound to reach your destined goal." (Sri Chinmoy) Click to tweet
197. "No matter where you are on your journey, that’s exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead." (Oprah Winfrey) Click to tweet
198. "Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow." (Dorothy Thompson) Click to tweet
199. "We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are." (Tobias Wolff) Click to tweet
200. "There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind." (C.S. Lewis) Click to tweet
201. "Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have." (H. Jackson Brown Jr.) Click to tweet
202. "When the world says “give up”, hope whispers try it one more time."Click to tweet
203. "Out of difficulties grow miracles." (Jean de La Fontaine) Click to tweet
204. "The fewer the words, the better the prayer." (Martin Luther) Click to tweet
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205. "Prayer is man’s greatest power." (W. Clement Stone) Click to tweet
206. "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." (Mahatma Gandhi) Click to tweet
207. "A bad prayer is vague, unemotional and impossible. A good prayer is clear and realist. A great prayer is clear and has already happened." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
208. "I have so much to do that i shall spend the first three hours in prayer." (Martin Luther) Click to tweet
209. "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) Click to tweet
210. "Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time." (A. Eustace Haydon) Click to tweet
211. "Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope." (Tom Head) Click to tweet
212. "Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues." (Brother Lawrence) Click to tweet
213. "I know you’re tired but come, this is the way." (Rumi) Click to tweet
214. "Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible." (Helen Keller) Click to tweet
215. "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother teresaprayer is where the action is." (John Wesley) Click to tweet
216. "The word hope i take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith." (John Calvin) Click to tweet
217. "Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?" (Corrie ten Boom) Click to tweet
218. "Where there’s life, there’s hope." (Theocritus) Click to tweet
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219. "Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow." (Toni Morrison) Click to tweet
220. "Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death." (Pearl S. Buck) Click to tweet
221. "What keeps us alive is hope. What keeps us alive is love." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
222. "Keep your best wishes close to your heart and watch what happens." (Tony DeLiso) Click to tweet
223. "The chance to love and be loved exists no matter where you are." (Oprah Winfrey) Click to tweet
224. "Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Click to tweet
225. "Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being." (Albert Schweitzer) Click to tweet
226. "We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope." (Manel Loureiro) Click to tweet
227. "We live by hope. We do not always get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so." (Hubert H. Humphrey) Click to tweet
228. "Savor life: don’t just breathe it in; exhale the moment to intake the next." (KC Rhoads) Click to tweet
229. "It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had." (Cassandra Clare) Click to tweet
230. "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) Click to tweet
231. "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) Click to tweet
232. "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) Click to tweet
233. "Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired." (Erik H. Erikson) Click to tweet
234. "Love without hope will not survive. Love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and faith." (Toba Beta) Click to tweet
235. "In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none." (Victor Hugo) Click to tweet
236. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
237. "If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person." (Haruki Murakami) Click to tweet
238. "The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started." (Norman Cousins) Click to tweet
239. "My great hope is to laugh as much as i cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
240. "It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks better." (Francois Jacob) Click to tweet
241. "How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?" (Nicholas Sparks) Click to tweet
242. "One lives in the hope of becoming a memory." (Antonio Porchia) Click to tweet
243. "While the heart beats, hope lingers." (Alison Croggon) Click to tweet
244. "Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet
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245. "Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden." (Cormac McCarthy) Click to tweet
246. "Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust." (Charles R. Swindoll) Click to tweet
247. "The sun always comes up. Spring always comes after winter. The river always reach the ocean. Always." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
248. "Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever." (Roy T. Bennett) Click to tweet
249. "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) Click to tweet
250. "That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man." (Charles Bukowski) Click to tweet
251. "We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate." (Amy Tan) Click to tweet
252. "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) Click to tweet
253. "I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings." (Elie Wiesel) Click to tweet
254. "The value of another’s experience is to give us hope, not to tell us how or whether to proceed." (Peter Block) Click to tweet
255. "Strange as it may seem, i still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily." (Lemony Snicket) Click to tweet
256. "Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
257. "Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory." (Norman Vincent Peale) Click to tweet
258. "It’s the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee." (Nicholas Sparks) Click to tweet
259. "Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear." (Publilius Syrus) Click to tweet
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260. "The first quality that is needed is audacity." (Winston Churchill) Click to tweet
261. "Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it." (Albert Camus) Click to tweet
262. "Learn to close your eyes and trust. Learn to open your heart and love. Learn to take the risk and fly." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
263. "Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand." (Thomas Aquinas) Click to tweet
264. "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." (Anne Lamott) Click to tweet
265. "Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight." (Henry Ward Beecher) Click to tweet
266. "As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time." (E.B. White) Click to tweet
267. "There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
268. "If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down." (Mary Pickford) Click to tweet
269. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." (Helen Keller) Click to tweet
270. "Optimism is an expectation of the future, but hope is a way of experiencing the present. Optimism argues with the predictions of cynicism and bitterness, and is often proved wrong. Hope rejects cynicism and bitterness as unhelpful, and is perennially proved right." (Doug Muder) Click to tweet
271. "The greatest personalities that ever existed have been those who united human beings and put them on the road toward cooperation and effectiveness and peace. Those whom the world has held highest have helped to unite and not sever interconnectedness. They have not been the destroyers of differences but the harmonizer of differences." (John Lovejoy Elliott) Click to tweet
272. "Hope is a force of nature. Don’t let anyone tell you different." (Jim Butcher) Click to tweet
273. "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) Click to tweet
274. "The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams." (Elizabeth Gilbert) Click to tweet
275. "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) Click to tweet
276. "What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change." (Reese Witherspoon) Click to tweet
277. "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle." (Christian D. Larson) Click to tweet
278. "Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith." (Robert Brault) Click to tweet
279. "Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." (Robert F. Kennedy) Click to tweet
280. "It’s important to emphasize that hope is only a beginning; it’s not a substitute for action, only a basis for it." (Rebecca Solnit) Click to tweet
281. "None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free." (Pearl S. Buck) Click to tweet
282. "We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?" (Margaret Atwood) Click to tweet
283. "Fear created gods; audacity created kings." (Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon) Click to tweet
284. "The past is made out of facts… i guess the future is just hope." (Isaac Marion) Click to tweet
285. "Hope – hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope." (Barack Obama) Click to tweet
2. "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
3. "Everything that is done in this world is done by hope." (Martin Luther) Click to tweet
4. "I dwell in possibility." (Emily Dickinson) Click to tweet
5. "May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." (Nelson Mandela) Click to tweet
6. "It is because of hope that you suffer. It is through hope that you’ll change things." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
7. "If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment." (Henry David Thoreau) Click to tweet
8. "Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." (Desmond Tutu) Click to tweet
9. "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
10. "There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for." (J.R.R. Tolkien) Click to tweet
11. "Every cloud has a silver lining." (John Milson) Click to tweet
12. "While there’s life, there’s hope." (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Click to tweet
13. "The darkest hours are just before dawn." (English Proverb) Click to tweet
14. "Hope is the ocean for the river, the sun for trees and the sky for us." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
15. "I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains." (Anne Frank) Click to tweet
16. "Only in the darkness can you see the stars." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
17. "Our future is our confidence and self-esteem." (Tupac) Click to tweet
18. "In all things it is better to hope than to despair." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Click to tweet
19. "Walk on with hope in your heart, and you’ll never walk alone." (Shah Rukh Khan) Click to tweet
20. "There is nothing like a dream to create the future." (Victor Hugo) Click to tweet
21. "Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
22. "If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) Click to tweet
23. "Hope never abandons you, you abandon it." (George Weinberg) Click to tweet
24. "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) Click to tweet
25. "Hope is but the dream of those who wake." (Matthew Prior) Click to tweet
26. "However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope." (Stephen Hawking) Click to tweet
27. "Hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things, and good things never die." (Andy Dufresne) Click to tweet
28. "Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all… as long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength." (G.K. Chesterton) Click to tweet
29. "In the unlikely story that is america, there has never been anything false about hope." (Barack Obama) Click to tweet
30. "I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." (Dalai Lama) Click to tweet
31. "I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best." (Benjamin Disraeli) Click to tweet
32. "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 them." (Louisa May Alcott) Click to tweet
33. "Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower." (Shigenori Kameoka) Click to tweet
34. "Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you." (Hafiz of Persia) Click to tweet
35. "Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day." (E.B. White) Click to tweet
36. "All human eyes have longing in them." (Ernesto Cardenal) Click to tweet
37. "Where there is no vision, there is no hope." (George Washington Carver) Click to tweet
38. "Hope is passion for what is possible." (Soren Kierkegaard) Click to tweet
39. "Hope is a?n embrace of the unknown?" (Rebecca Solnit) Click to tweet
40. "Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is a characteristic of all living beings. Edward s." (Ame) Click to tweet
41. "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) Click to tweet
42. "Hope is a double-edged sword. Use it and you’ll suffer until you reach your goal. Don’t use it you’ll fall into despair." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
43. "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) Click to tweet
44. "Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate." (G.K. Chesterton) Click to tweet
45. "Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion." (Thomas Fuller) Click to tweet
46. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." (Confucius) Click to tweet
47. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." (Confucius) Click to tweet
48. "Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows." (Helen Keller) Click to tweet
49. "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." (Mahatma Gandhi) Click to tweet
50. "I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, i cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward." (Nelson Mandela) Click to tweet
51. "You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
52. "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars." (Norman Vincent Peale) Click to tweet
53. "Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
54. "Hope is the poor man’s bread." (Gary Herbert) Click to tweet
55. "Hope is a waking dream." (Aristotle) Click to tweet
56. "To live without hope is to cease to live." (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) Click to tweet
57. "Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something. Not even me." (Chris Gardner) Click to tweet
58. "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way i know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." (Steve Jobs) Click to tweet
59. "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) Click to tweet
60. "When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on." (Theodore Roosevelt) Click to tweet
61. "All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can i know? 2. What ought i to do? 3. What may i hope?" (Immanuel Kant) Click to tweet
62. "This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
63. "Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." (Thomas Edison) Click to tweet
64. "The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." (Winston Churchill) Click to tweet
65. "In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?" (Barack Obama) Click to tweet
66. "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.) Click to tweet
67. "You get in life what you have the courage to ask for." (Oprah Winfrey) Click to tweet
68. "Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed." (Michael Jackson) Click to tweet
69. "The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope." (William Shakespeare) Click to tweet
70. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." (Albert Einstein) Click to tweet
71. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." (Winston Churchill) Click to tweet
72. "If you are going through hell, keep going." (Winston Churchill) Click to tweet
73. "For every dark night there’s a brighter day." (Tupac) Click to tweet
74. "Kid, you’ll move mountains!" (Dr. Seuss) Click to tweet
75. "Hope is the last thing ever lost." (Italian Proverb) Click to tweet
76. "A leader is a dealer in hope." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Click to tweet
77. "The most hopeful and the most enduring will prevail." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
78. "Yes we can!" (Barack Obama) Click to tweet
79. "Hope and change are hard-fought things." (Michelle Obama) Click to tweet
80. "A drowning man will clutch at a straw." (Thomas Moore) Click to tweet
81. "Hope springs eternal in the human breast." (Alexander Pope) Click to tweet
82. "What we do now echoes in eternity." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet
83. "Injustice never rules forever." (Seneca) Click to tweet
84. "Oft hope is born when all is forlorn." (J.R.R. Tolkien) Click to tweet
85. "Hope is medicine for a soul that’s sick and tired." (Eric Swensson) Click to tweet
86. "We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light." (Albert Pike) Click to tweet
87. "Hope is a passion for the possible." (Soren Kierkegaard) Click to tweet
88. "This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today." (David Nicholls) Click to tweet
89. "Hope costs nothing." (Colette) Click to tweet
90. "Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up." (David Orr) Click to tweet
91. "Hope keeps you alive." (Lauren Oliver) Click to tweet
92. "I accept the universe!" (Margaret Fuller) Click to tweet
93. "All things are difficult before they are easy." (Thomas Fuller) Click to tweet
94. "I inhale hope with every breath i take." (Sharon Kay Penman) Click to tweet
95. "However long the night, the dawn will break." (African Proverb) Click to tweet
96. "Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future." (Robert H. Schuller) Click to tweet
97. "Learn to ask even when you feel weak. Learn to work even if you don’t want to. Learn to hope even when the odds are against you." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
98. "We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn’t want to be ordinary." (Robert M. Drake) Click to tweet
99. "A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, i am living up to my full potential?" (Jane Wagner) Click to tweet
100. "Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity." (Robert G. Ingersoll) Click to tweet
101. "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) Click to tweet
102. "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) Click to tweet
103. "You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." (William Faulkner) Click to tweet
104. "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) Click to tweet
105. "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) Click to tweet
106. "Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles." (Samuel Smiles) Click to tweet
107. "Part 1. Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect." (Thomas Merton) Click to tweet
108. "Part 2. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything." (Thomas Merton) Click to tweet
109. "The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It’s enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrows currently assail us aren’t worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon." (Joni Eareckson Tada) Click to tweet
110. "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy." (Francis of Assisi) Click to tweet
111. "You are full of unshaped dreams, you are laden with beginnings, there is hope in you." (Lola Ridge) Click to tweet
112. "Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future." (Kennedy) Click to tweet
113. "A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope. Shannon k." (Butcher) Click to tweet
114. "Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something. The more futile, the more useless, the more irrelevant and incomprehensible an act of rebellion is, the vaster and more potent hope becomes." (Chris Hedges) Click to tweet
115. "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And i believe that love is stronger than death." (Robert Fulghum) Click to tweet
116. "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." (Robert H. Goddard) Click to tweet
117. "Rosa sat so martin could walk, martin walked so barack could run, barack ran so we all can fly."Click to tweet
118. "I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution." (Werner von Braun) Click to tweet
119. "We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken." (John Green) Click to tweet
120. "A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope." (Thomas Carlyle) Click to tweet
121. "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" (Percy Bysshe Shelley) Click to tweet
122. "Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions." (Jodi Picoult) Click to tweet
123. "The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep." (E. Joseph Cossman) Click to tweet
124. "To hear the phrase “our only hope” always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn’t work, there is nothing left." (Lemony Snicket) Click to tweet
125. "Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." (G.K. Chesterton) Click to tweet
126. "People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them." (Flannery O’Connor) Click to tweet
127. "Got no check books, got no banks. Still i’d like to express my thanks – i got the sun in the morning and the moon at night." (Irving Berlin) Click to tweet
128. "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) Click to tweet
129. "Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!" (Dr. Seuss) Click to tweet
130. "Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light." (Dorothy Thompson) Click to tweet
131. "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." (Audrey Hepburn) Click to tweet
132. "Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness." (Anne Frank) Click to tweet
133. "Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper." (W. Rawley) Click to tweet
134. "In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments." (Friedrich Nietzsche) Click to tweet
135. "In the midst of winter, i found there was, within me, an invincible summer." (Albert Camus) Click to tweet
136. "A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future." (Albert Camus) Click to tweet
137. "Hope comes from dreams. Dreams come from ambition. Ambition comes from the unwillingness to accept the facts." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
138. "Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us." (Samuel Smiles) Click to tweet
139. "What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life." (Emil Brunner) Click to tweet
140. "Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be." (Don Quixote) Click to tweet
141. "There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow." (O.S. Marden) Click to tweet
142. "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) Click to tweet
143. "The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." (Will Durant) Click to tweet
144. "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) Click to tweet
145. "Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure." (Abraham Cowley) Click to tweet
146. "He who has never hoped can never despair." (George Bernard Shaw) Click to tweet
147. "Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams." (S.A. Sachs) Click to tweet
148. "Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers." (Robert Ingersoll) Click to tweet
149. "To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death." (Pearl S. Buck) Click to tweet
150. "Repentance is another name for aspiration." (Henry Ward Beecher) Click to tweet
151. "We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears." (Francois de La Rochefoucauld) Click to tweet
152. "The oil of hope makes life’s machinery run smoothly." (James Lendall Basford) Click to tweet
153. "In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet." (Albert Schweitzer) Click to tweet
154. "Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering." (D. Morgenstern) Click to tweet
155. "Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened." (Charles Haddon Spurgeon) Click to tweet
156. "By perseverance the snail reached the ark." (Charles Haddon Spurgeon) Click to tweet
157. "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) Click to tweet
158. "Sadness is but a wall between two gardens." (Kahlil Gibran) Click to tweet
159. "You’ll stop hurting when you stop hoping." (Guillaume Musso) Click to tweet
160. "It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable." (Robert Brault) Click to tweet
161. "What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." (Oscar Wilde) Click to tweet
162. "If you never try something new, you never learn. If you never create, you never contribute. If you never hope, you never change." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
163. "Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process." (Brené Brown) Click to tweet
164. "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) Click to tweet
165. "Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. Hope without critical thinking is naïveté." (Maria Popova) Click to tweet
166. "Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option." (James Cameron) Click to tweet
167. "When you stop hoping you start settling." (Valorie Burton) Click to tweet
168. "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." (Epicurus) Click to tweet
169. "The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope." (Samuel Johnson) Click to tweet
170. "The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man." (T.S. Eliot) Click to tweet
171. "Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do." (Pope John XXIII) Click to tweet
172. "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) Click to tweet
173. "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) Click to tweet
174. "The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts." (Alain de Botton) Click to tweet
175. "To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect." (Jane Austen) Click to tweet
176. "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”." (Alexander Dumas) Click to tweet
177. "Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation." (Alan Cohen) Click to tweet
178. "All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, moses, ruth, mary, jesus, rumi, gandhi, and dorothy day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like." (Henri Nouwen) Click to tweet
179. "Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible." (William Sloane Coffin) Click to tweet
180. "Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment." (William Penn) Click to tweet
181. "There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope." (Baruch Spinoza) Click to tweet
182. "Things start out as hopes and end up as habits." (Lillian Hellman) Click to tweet
183. "If it were not for hope, the heart would break." (Thomas Fuller) Click to tweet
184. "Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which i rebuilt my life." (J.K. Rowling) Click to tweet
185. "Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about." (Winston Churchill) Click to tweet
186. "Never give up. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it." (Catherine Pulsifer) Click to tweet
187. "Fools give up after the first blow. The wise after the second. The wiser never." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
188. "As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet
189. "To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful ‘magic skills’ that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition." (Elizabeth Gilbert) Click to tweet
190. "All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope." (Alexander Dumas) Click to tweet
191. "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." (Harriet Beecher Stowe) Click to tweet
192. "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) Click to tweet
193. "Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." (James A. Michener) Click to tweet
194. "I knew life began where i stood in the dark, looking out into the light." (Yusef Komunyakaa) Click to tweet
195. "Patience and fortitude conquer all things." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
196. "Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: we shall try again and again, and we are bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but we have to defy them. [… ] the goal is ahead of you. If you do not give up, you are bound to reach your destined goal." (Sri Chinmoy) Click to tweet
197. "No matter where you are on your journey, that’s exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead." (Oprah Winfrey) Click to tweet
198. "Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow." (Dorothy Thompson) Click to tweet
199. "We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are." (Tobias Wolff) Click to tweet
200. "There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind." (C.S. Lewis) Click to tweet
201. "Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have." (H. Jackson Brown Jr.) Click to tweet
202. "When the world says “give up”, hope whispers try it one more time."Click to tweet
203. "Out of difficulties grow miracles." (Jean de La Fontaine) Click to tweet
204. "The fewer the words, the better the prayer." (Martin Luther) Click to tweet
205. "Prayer is man’s greatest power." (W. Clement Stone) Click to tweet
206. "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." (Mahatma Gandhi) Click to tweet
207. "A bad prayer is vague, unemotional and impossible. A good prayer is clear and realist. A great prayer is clear and has already happened." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
208. "I have so much to do that i shall spend the first three hours in prayer." (Martin Luther) Click to tweet
209. "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) Click to tweet
210. "Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time." (A. Eustace Haydon) Click to tweet
211. "Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope." (Tom Head) Click to tweet
212. "Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues." (Brother Lawrence) Click to tweet
213. "I know you’re tired but come, this is the way." (Rumi) Click to tweet
214. "Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible." (Helen Keller) Click to tweet
215. "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother teresaprayer is where the action is." (John Wesley) Click to tweet
216. "The word hope i take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith." (John Calvin) Click to tweet
217. "Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?" (Corrie ten Boom) Click to tweet
218. "Where there’s life, there’s hope." (Theocritus) Click to tweet
219. "Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow." (Toni Morrison) Click to tweet
220. "Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death." (Pearl S. Buck) Click to tweet
221. "What keeps us alive is hope. What keeps us alive is love." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
222. "Keep your best wishes close to your heart and watch what happens." (Tony DeLiso) Click to tweet
223. "The chance to love and be loved exists no matter where you are." (Oprah Winfrey) Click to tweet
224. "Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Click to tweet
225. "Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being." (Albert Schweitzer) Click to tweet
226. "We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope." (Manel Loureiro) Click to tweet
227. "We live by hope. We do not always get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so." (Hubert H. Humphrey) Click to tweet
228. "Savor life: don’t just breathe it in; exhale the moment to intake the next." (KC Rhoads) Click to tweet
229. "It was stupid to hope, she knew. But sometimes hope was all you had." (Cassandra Clare) Click to tweet
230. "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) Click to tweet
231. "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) Click to tweet
232. "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) Click to tweet
233. "Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired." (Erik H. Erikson) Click to tweet
234. "Love without hope will not survive. Love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and faith." (Toba Beta) Click to tweet
235. "In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none." (Victor Hugo) Click to tweet
236. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
237. "If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person." (Haruki Murakami) Click to tweet
238. "The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started." (Norman Cousins) Click to tweet
239. "My great hope is to laugh as much as i cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet
240. "It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks better." (Francois Jacob) Click to tweet
241. "How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?" (Nicholas Sparks) Click to tweet
242. "One lives in the hope of becoming a memory." (Antonio Porchia) Click to tweet
243. "While the heart beats, hope lingers." (Alison Croggon) Click to tweet
244. "Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever." (Lao Tzu) Click to tweet
245. "Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden." (Cormac McCarthy) Click to tweet
246. "Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust." (Charles R. Swindoll) Click to tweet
247. "The sun always comes up. Spring always comes after winter. The river always reach the ocean. Always." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
248. "Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever." (Roy T. Bennett) Click to tweet
249. "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) Click to tweet
250. "That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man." (Charles Bukowski) Click to tweet
251. "We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate." (Amy Tan) Click to tweet
252. "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) Click to tweet
253. "I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings." (Elie Wiesel) Click to tweet
254. "The value of another’s experience is to give us hope, not to tell us how or whether to proceed." (Peter Block) Click to tweet
255. "Strange as it may seem, i still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily." (Lemony Snicket) Click to tweet
256. "Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Click to tweet
257. "Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory." (Norman Vincent Peale) Click to tweet
258. "It’s the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee." (Nicholas Sparks) Click to tweet
259. "Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear." (Publilius Syrus) Click to tweet
260. "The first quality that is needed is audacity." (Winston Churchill) Click to tweet
261. "Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it." (Albert Camus) Click to tweet
262. "Learn to close your eyes and trust. Learn to open your heart and love. Learn to take the risk and fly." (Maxime Lagace) Click to tweet
263. "Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand." (Thomas Aquinas) Click to tweet
264. "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." (Anne Lamott) Click to tweet
265. "Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight." (Henry Ward Beecher) Click to tweet
266. "As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time." (E.B. White) Click to tweet
267. "There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity." (Martin Luther King Jr.) Click to tweet
268. "If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down." (Mary Pickford) Click to tweet
269. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." (Helen Keller) Click to tweet
270. "Optimism is an expectation of the future, but hope is a way of experiencing the present. Optimism argues with the predictions of cynicism and bitterness, and is often proved wrong. Hope rejects cynicism and bitterness as unhelpful, and is perennially proved right." (Doug Muder) Click to tweet
271. "The greatest personalities that ever existed have been those who united human beings and put them on the road toward cooperation and effectiveness and peace. Those whom the world has held highest have helped to unite and not sever interconnectedness. They have not been the destroyers of differences but the harmonizer of differences." (John Lovejoy Elliott) Click to tweet
272. "Hope is a force of nature. Don’t let anyone tell you different." (Jim Butcher) Click to tweet
273. "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) Click to tweet
274. "The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams." (Elizabeth Gilbert) Click to tweet
275. "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) Click to tweet
276. "What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change." (Reese Witherspoon) Click to tweet
277. "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle." (Christian D. Larson) Click to tweet
278. "Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith." (Robert Brault) Click to tweet
279. "Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." (Robert F. Kennedy) Click to tweet
280. "It’s important to emphasize that hope is only a beginning; it’s not a substitute for action, only a basis for it." (Rebecca Solnit) Click to tweet
281. "None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free." (Pearl S. Buck) Click to tweet
282. "We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?" (Margaret Atwood) Click to tweet
283. "Fear created gods; audacity created kings." (Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon) Click to tweet
284. "The past is made out of facts… i guess the future is just hope." (Isaac Marion) Click to tweet
285. "Hope – hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope." (Barack Obama) Click to tweet
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