Top 101 Hope Quotes

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#101 – 90. Hope Quotes

101. I dwell in possibility. Emily Dickinson

100. 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

99. “Jesus gives us hope because He keeps us company, has a vision and knows the way we should go.” -Max Lucado

98. Every cloud has a silver lining. D.R. Locke

97. “It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up.” C.J. Redwine

96. Every jack has his jill; if only they can find each other. R. Cotgrave

95. Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens. Tony DeLiso

94. Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower. Shigenori Kameoka

93. “Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” G.K. Chesterton

92. Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day. E.B. White

91. Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. Samuel Smiles

90. “Hope can get you through anything.” Jamie Ford

#89 – 80. Hope Quotes

89. “We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.” -Pope Francis

88. “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

87. Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. Christopher Reeve

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

85. “You can look forward with hope, because one day there will be no more separation, no more scars, and no more suffering in My Father’s House. It’s the home of your dreams!” -Anne Graham Lotz

84. “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

83. I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. Benjamin Disraeli

82. “Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.” -Louie Giglio

81. 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

80. 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

#79 – 70. Hope Quotes

79. Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is a characteristic of all living beings. Edward S. Ame

78. “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.

77. “Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve. Provoke yourself by recollection, and your affection for God will increase tenfold; your imagination will not be starved any longer, but will be quick and enthusiastic, and your hope will be inexpressibly bright.” -Oswald Chambers

76. “The Spirit of God first imparts love; he next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in many of our churches.” -Dwight L. Moody

75. 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 H. Spurgeon

74. All human eyes have longing in them. Ernesto Cardenal

73. Only in the darkness can you see the stars. Martin Luther King Jr.

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

71. “The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.” Alain de Botton

70. Never give up. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it. Catherine Pulsifer

#69 – 60. Hope Quotes

69. If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. Henry David Thoreau

68. “If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.” Thomas Fuller

67. Where there is no vision, there is no hope. George Washington Carver

66. “Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.” -Thomas Aquinas

65. “True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises.” -Francis Chan

64. “We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something – with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish.” Haruki Murakami

63. “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

62. 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

61. In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. Barack Obama

60. “What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.” -Rick Warren

#59 – 50. Hope Quotes

59. “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up.” -Anne Lamott

58. Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. W. Rawley

57. A drowning man will clutch at a straw. Sir Thomas More

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

55. Hope is but the dream of those who wake. Matthew Prior

54. 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-Exupery

53. “We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.” John Calvin

52. While there’s life, there’s hope. Marcus Tullius Cicero

51. Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. George Weinberg

50. “Christ showed us hope transformed into sacrificial love.” -Chuck Colson

#49 – 40. Hope Quotes

49. “Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.” -Andy Stanley

48. “Listen to the mustn’ts, child, Listen to the don’ts, Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts, Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” Shel Silverstein

47. What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life. Emil Brunner

46. There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Victor Hugo

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

44. I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. Dalai Lama

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

42. “Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.” -John Maxwell

41. “Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” Roy T. Bennett

40. “We need hope, or else we cannot endure.” Sarah J. Maas

#39 – 30. Hope Quotes

39. “Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus.” -Billy Graham

38. “Hope is a force of nature. Don’t let anyone tell you different.” Jim Butcher

37. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Thomas Norton & Thomas Sackville

36. Walk on with hope in your heart, and you’ll never walk alone. Shah Rukh Khan

35. “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

34. May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. Nelson Mandela

33. “Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.” -John Piper

32. “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

31. “We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.” Amy Tan

30. “Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#29 – 20. Hope Quotes

29. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius

28. “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

27. Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment. Martin Luther King Jr

26. “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

25. “Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.” Martin Luther

24. “A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope.” Shannon K. Butcher

23. “Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.” Albert Camus

22. Hope springs eternal. Alexander Pope

21. Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. Robert H. Schuller

20. “When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.” Theodore Roosevelt

#19 – 10. Hope Quotes

19. “That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.” Charles Bukowski

18. “It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.” John Guare

17. “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

16. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope. Stephen Hawking

15. 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

14. “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

13. Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. Hafiz of Persia

12. “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…” Alfred Tennyson

11. “The only hope for this or any other society is to hear the Word of the Lord and obey.” -John MacArthur

10. Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. Desmond Tutu

#9 – 1. Hope Quotes

9. “Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.” G.K. Chesterton

8. Where there’s life, there’s hope. Theocritus

7. 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

6. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King, Jr.

5. “Our righteousness is in Him, and our hope depends, not upon the exercise of grace in us, but upon the fullness of grace and love in Him, and upon His obedience unto death.” -John Newton

4. “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.” J.R.R. Tolkien

3. “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

2. “Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.” -Ravi Zacharias

1.“Hope is a waking dream.” Aristotle

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