106 Hope Quotes

In times of uncertainty and challenge, finding hope can be a lifeline that keeps us moving forward. Hope is the light that guides us through the darkest moments and inspires us to believe in better tomorrows. Whether you are seeking encouragement to face a difficult day or simply need a reminder of the good in the world, our carefully curated collection of the top 106 hope quotes is here to uplift your spirits. These quotes from a diverse range of voices and times are sure to spark a sense of resilience and optimism within you. Dive in and let the words of wisdom, comfort, and inspiration illuminate your path.

1. “A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.” - Carl Sandburg

2. “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

3. “To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of faith rests upon accepting being loved by God, and therefore to believe is to say Yes, not only to him, but to creation, to creatures, above all, to men, to try to see the image of God in each person and thereby to become a lover. That's not easy, but the basic Yes, the conviction that God has created men, that he stands behind them, that they aren't simply negative, gives love a reference point that enables it to ground hope on the basis of faith.” - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict

4. “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

5. “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

6. “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.” - Margaret Mitchell

7. “Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.p.207” - Norman Mailer

8. “Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.” - Vladimir Lenin

9. “By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency. ” - Steven Galloway

10. “Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.” - Henry Rollins

11. “Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.” - William Butler Yeats

12. “History says, Don’t hopeOn this side of the grave,But then, once in a lifetimeThe longed-for tidal waveOf justice can rise up,And hope and history rhyme” - Seamus Heaney

13. “Hope and faith goes hand-in-hand, because without hope there is no faith. The same goes with want and needs, without any wants, there no need to have a need” - Temitope Owosela

14. “Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.” - Margaret Stohl

15. “You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.” - Shiro Amano

16. “Because now that it's finally morning, the shadows are beginning to fade, the shadows that have been covering my mind and my soul. Now that they're gone, I can almost start to see the way, and it's different from the one they'd convinced me was all I could have.” - Vixen Phillips

17. “God can inject hope into a absolutely hopeless situation.” - Mark Evans

18. “We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops---which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.” - William Peter Blatty

19. “All we know, Midnight. The best of all we know. For Chestry Valley and its master we loved. For Nana. For Sugarloaf and Brimstone Farm. For Pop and Mom and Tom. For the foals to come. For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know. For good-by.” - Kate Seredy

20. “I’ve learned that no matter how inspired, fired up and motivated you might be, the dark clouds will always set in” - Bernard Kelvin Clive

21. “I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful lives, a yearning for values we can commonly embrace. I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.” - Bill Moyes

22. “You said you didn't want to get involved with me,that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn't bear it. Well that just isn't good enough..Look what happens to people just living their lives. They get hurt, it's not fair they get hurt but they do, all the time, no matter how careful they are. Somebody can just just come along and hurt them, for no stupid reason..” - Julian Gough

23. “If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.” - Chad Sugg

24. “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

25. “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.

26. “Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

27. “I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.” - Elizabeth Gaskell

28. “Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.” - Thomas Hardy

29. “Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?” - Dean Koontz

30. “If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another name?” - Graham Greene

31. “But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.” - Mark Twain

32. “His hope wasn't lost, it was buried, and somehow Prudence Ryland made that old grave seem much more shallow than it once was.” - Kathryn Smith

33. “Beware how you take away hope from another human being” - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

34. “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” - Michael Jackson

35. “I hope Limitless.. and its this Limitless hope that pushes me forward to live this Life..!!!” - Abhijeet Sawant

36. “The Coming of LightEven this late it happens:the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves, stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows, sending up warm bouquets of air.Even this late the bones of the body shine and tomorrow’s dust flares into breath.” - Mark Strand

37. “Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart.” - Dean Koontz

38. “Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.” - G.I. Gurdjieff

39. “If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

40. “So much of how we think, feel, and live depends on our vision-what we choose to see in any given situation.” - Jocelyn Green

41. “Rien ne va arrêter ma quête pour te trouver" No one will stop my quest to find you.” - Susane Colasanti

42. “One factor that makes human being reluctant to have hope is the fear of disappointment.Do not be afraid of disappointment! The more you afraid of it, the smaller your expectation.Face and overcome the disappointment, even though it felt bitter in soul and pain in body.If you go through and pass it, then your soul and body will be stronger than previous level.When hope emerged, change will occur because of that, both in your soul and in your body.Fear of disapointment is a main enemy of good hope and great change within the human being.Only by facing and overcoming the fear of disapointment, man will become stronger and wiser. ~Salah satu faktor yang membuat manusia enggan untuk berharap adalah rasa takut akan kecewa.Jangan takut dengan kekecewaan! Semakin engkau takut menghadapinya, semakin kecil pengharapanmu.Hadapi dan lawanlah rasa kecewa, meskipun terasa pahit di jiwa dan terasa sakit di tubuh.Jika engkau mampu dan lulus, maka jiwa dan tubuhmu akan lebih kuat dari kondisi sebelumnya.Ketika harapan muncul, perubahan akan terjadi, baik dalam jiwa maupun dalam tubuh manusia.Rasa takut akan kecewa adalah musuh utama pengharapan yang baik dan perubahan yang agung dalam diri manusia.Hanya dengan menghadapi dan melalui rasa takut akan kecewa, seseorang dapat menjadi lebih kuat dan bijaksana.” - Toba Beta

43. “You are one woman in an endless line of women who were chosen to love more passionately than others, be committed to justice more fervently than others, and seek our Maker’s higher expressions more reflectively than others.” - Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

44. “I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it held for me, but I must go on believing so. Every hope of the future is meaningless unless I have faith that you and I will share it together.” - Elizabeth George Speare

45. “And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me” - Ray Lamontagne

46. “Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?” - Sophocles

47. “But everything I have to give, I'll give to you” - Ray Lamontagne

48. “If you search for God you will find him and He will not give up on you".” - Michele Woolley

49. “you won’t ever get ahead if you keep feeling sorry for yourself. You must stop all the negative talk and start thinking positive. You have a lot of potential but your life won’t change until you change how you think”.” - Michele Woolley

50. “The strong lines of the woman's face bespoke hard-won wisdom and courage, and somehow that made watching her more difficult. If such a woman could be defeated by Elantris, what hope was there for Raoden?” - Brandon Sanderson

51. “But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost untouchable, and flitted away like a golden butterfly into the bright blue sky - beautiful, unreachable and completely transistent.” - Tabitha Suzuma

52. “...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.” - Isaac Marion

53. “Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.” - Casanova

54. “Live for the lovers, not the haters!” - Scylar Tyberius

55. “Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?” - Anton Chekhov

56. “When in darkness....strike a match” - John Paul warren

57. “I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it’s so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.” - Terry Pratchett

58. “To get where you want to be, you must first know where you are.” - Deborah Day

59. “I could smack her, punch her in the face, but then I see what she can't hide from me. I've seen it before-the desperation, the agony, the need to find a reason to go on, and the inability to find it.” - Mary Beth Miller

60. “His will be done, as done it surely will be, whether we humble ourselves to resignation or not. The impulse of creation forwards it; the strength of powers, seen and unseen, has its fulfillment in charge. Proof of a life to come must be given. In fire and in blood, if needful, must that proof be written. In fire and in blood do we trace the record throughout nature. In fire and in blood does it cross our own experience. Sufferer, faint not through terror of this burning evidence. Tired wayfarer, gird up thy loins, look upward, march onward. Pilgrims and brother mourners, join in friendly company. Dark through the wilderness of this world stretches the way for most of us: equal and steady be our tread; be our cross our banner. For staff we have His promis, whose 'word is tried, whose way perfect": for present hope His providence, 'who gives the shield of salvation, whose gentleness makes great'; for final home His bosom, who 'dwells in the height of Heaven'; for crowning prize a glory exceeding and eternal. Let us so run that we may obtain: let us endure hardness as good soldiers; let us finish our course, and keep the faith, reliant in the issue to come off more than conquerors: 'Art though not from everlasting mine Holy One? WE SHALL NOT DIE!” - Charlotte Brontë

61. “Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.” - Dave Ramsey

62. “Donde termina el arco iris,en tu alma o en el horizonte?Where does the rainbow end,in your soul or on the horizon?” - Pablo Neruda

63. “Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

64. “The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don't worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry...He's risen!” - Swindoll Charles R.

65. “Not every story has a happy ending, ... but the discoveries of science, the teachings of the heart, and the revelations of the soul all assure us that no human being is ever beyond redemption. The possibility of renewal exists so long as life exists. How to support that possibility in others and in ourselves is the ultimate question.” - Gabor Mate

66. “When all else is lost, the future still remains.” - Christian Bovee

67. “After sticking out life, I hope it's whatever you want it to be.” - Jodi Picoult

68. “I thought I was dreaming and I dreamed.” - Марко Соколовић

69. “Never give up. It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

70. “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

71. “Hope is like a word made with cloud, without faith, it quickly blows away.” - Anthony Liccione

72. “There have been bleak nights along my way, many of my own making, but life is all the brighter for them now. To the human eye, without the darkness there are no stars.” - Sumangali Morhall

73. “~ Faith lightens the path your shadowed mind has to walk ~” - Michelle Horst

74. “Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.” - Alice Walker

75. “Everything dies eventually. We all know that. People, cities, whole civilizations. Nothing lasts. So if existence was just binary, dead or alive, here or not here, what would be the fucking point in anything? My mom used to say that's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory - hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures.” - Isaac Marion

76. “Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.” - Mario Stinger

77. “High expectations I have. In hardness I labor that, fuller joy at the top I may partake. Nevertheless, in vain I toil. And then, friends'and people's reproach I become, because of my drowning hopes that keeps me out of the circle of richies and honor. I'm the distance they keep like plague, because I have no physical wealth and glamour like them. But in all my stony falls and griefs, the word of restoration in the blood given to me upon the altar of salvation, I cling. For in the end, mercy will attend my situation and see to my hard labor with crown of great success.” - Darmie Orem

78. “No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?” - Patrick Ness

79. “Does it scare you? That you might love someone that much someday, just to lose them too?" "Yes," I confess, "I've been scared since the first time I saw you.” - Cheryl McIntyre

80. “The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.” - Joan Chittister

81. “Give up isn't going to helpKeep going on will help” - Kristopher Morris

82. “I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all my heart. I don’t want the reputation that I love God, I don’t want to write songs about loving God, I don’t want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God. When I close my eyes, I want my heart to move. When I close my eyes and I look at Him, I want to feel alive on the inside. I want to look at Him with a fire in my heart and it’s real.” - Misty Edwards

83. “Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.” - D. Morgenstern

84. “Let faith and hope be the cornerstones for all of your tomorrows.” - Deborah L. Parker

85. “An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust.” - Barbara W. Tuchman

86. “... hoping that if she just walked down the same street fate would whirl her backward in time until she was once more (fill in your age), when the future was something she had not yet stepped into, when it was just an idea, a moment, something that had not disappointed her yet.” - Alice Hoffman

87. “My grandpa had a saying before he died: You can hope in one hand, shit in the other, and see which is filled first.” - Chris Colfer

88. “I've lost a lot in my long life. Yes, I've seen pain and I've seen strife. But I'll never give up; I'll never let go. Because I'll always have my ray of hope.” - Colleen Hoover

89. “Give me this moment," Kahl said to me. I glanced up at him and couldn't fathom the depths of his taunting amber irises."You have it." "Be my angel... Leave with me," he whispered. In that moment, when thoughts of the boy I loved left me and fissures of pure bliss consumed me, I knew I was in trouble.” - Nadège Richards

90. “Sometimes you just gotta hope for the hope of having hope some day.” - Jeffery Thompson

91. “...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...” - John Geddes

92. “Instead of being encouraged to feel completely protected, loved, honored, and respected by the Divine Force, you've been taught that you're being judged. Because you've been taught that, you feel guilt and fear. But guilt and fear do not open you connection to the Divine; they only serve to close your heart. The reality is that God's way is love, and you can see this for yourself.” - Michael A. Singer

93. “Time and again the sun sets like a bedimming curtain before my eyes, taking with it all illumination, warmth, and color.  I am overwhelmed by night and the monsters that lurk in shadows of despair.  But alas, stars twinkle from afar, shedding the tiniest rays of lighted hope.  I am reminded that the sun also rises and that morning's glory shall restore beauty to my world.  The realization of this dream is only a matter of waiting out the dreary night.  So, I shall persevere.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

94. “Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.” - Candace Bushnell

95. “How do I learn to speakwhen silence is all I know?” - Susie Clevenger

96. “I’m frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.” - Melina Marchetta

97. “You gotta show kids YOU'RE not scared (even if inside at times you are) and when you show you're not afraid of the "monsters" then they too will stand up even when the lights are off.” - Jill Telford

98. “This is my formula for the fall of things:we come to a river we always knew we'd have to cross.It ferries the twilight down through fieldworksof corn and half-blown sunflowers.The only sounds, one lost cicada calling to itselfand the piping of a bird that will never have a name.Now tell me there is a pausewhere we know there should be an end;then tell me you too imagined it this waywith our shadows never quite touching the riverand the river never quite reaching the sea.” - John Glenday

99. “There were times, in the beginning, when I used my journal as a wailing wall, but I learned not to immortalize the darkness. Rereading it was counterproductive. What I needed was a place in which to collect the light.” - Phyllis Theroux

100. “You call it hope — that fire of fire!It is but agony of desire.” - Edgar Allan Poe

101. “Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.” - Thanhha Lai

102. “Parents need to realize that the world is getting complicated every second. With new problems, new diseases, new habits. They have to realize the vast probability of their kids being victims of this age, this complicated era. Your kids could be exposed to problems that no kind of therapy can help. Your kids could be brainwashed by themselves to believe in insane theories that drive them crazy. Most kids will go through this stage. The lucky ones will understand. They will grow out of them. The most unlucky ones will live in these problems. Grow in them and never move forward. They will cut themselves, overdose on drugs, take up excessive drinking and smoking, for the slightest problems in their lives. You can't blame these kids for not being thankful or satisfied with what they have. Their mentality eludes them from the reality.” - Thisuri Wanniarachchi

103. “I realized at that moment - observing his form move further away without once turning back - that I’d already begun to rebuild the imaginary wall between us. I was shielding my heart with stone cold feelings again, the only way I knew to protect it. I still planned to try my hand at prayer. If God would grant me this one request, if I could keep my only friend, I would give anything in return, even the treasured books trapped beneath my arm. I’d tasted enough of a dismal life to know that a real, true friend was of greater worth than the collection of every imagined fairy tale in the world.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

104. “Though it pained me, I gave in. Why was it that I repeatedly succumbed to the first whisper of a promised maybe? How did the enticer, hope, always find my heart unguarded? There was no such thing as hope. Not for me. Why was it so hard to accept that?” - Richelle E. Goodrich

105. “Art at its best draws attention not only to the way things are but also to the way things will be, when the earth is filled with the knowledge of G-D as the waters cover the sea. That remains a surprising hope, and perhaps it will be the artists who are best at conveying both the hope and the surprise.” - N.T. Wright

106. “Let is walk ... joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life ... These pains will have an end when our life ends, after which there will be only joy, only contentment, only eternal consolation.” - St. Francis de Sales