Dream Big and Keep Your Positivity Going With These 125 Quotes About Hope

For many of us these days, it may feel like so much of life is up in the air. Although facing the unknown can be intimidating and honestly less-than-ideal, it's helpful to stay rooted in optimism and to not lose heart! Fortunately, these 125 quotes about hope should help revamp your motivation to stay positive and press on—even when encountering any uncertainty.

Maybe you're feeling overwhelmed with work or family struggles. Perhaps you've been chasing hard after a dream, with either no end in sight, or a strict routine to help you get there. Otherwise, it's possible you're actually having a pretty uneventful year, all things considered, and might just appreciate a good pick-me-up. Ultimately, no matter what your current circumstance or season in life, reigniting hope in your thoughts and choices can only make a positive, worthwhile impact.

So, wish upon those stars, harness that ambition, and keep up that confident, cheerful attitude! Remember that your perspective makes all the difference, and there's plenty of strength within you to push forward no matter what. Here are the best 125 quotes about hope to help inspire you!

125 Best Quotes About Hope

1. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” — Helen Keller

2. "You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda

3. "I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” — Anne Frank

4. "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

5. "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

6. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein

7. "Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” — Roy T. Bennett

8. "Hope is a waking dream.” — Aristotle

9. "In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.” — Fritz Knapp

10. "I always entertain great hopes." — Robert Frost

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11. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis

12. "There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for." — J.R.R. Tolkien

13. "Every cloud has a silver lining." — John Milson

14. "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

15. "A leader is a dealer in hope." — Napoleon Bonaparte

16. "Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future." — Robert H. Schuller

17. "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” — Harriet Tubman

18. "To live without hope is to cease to live.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

19. "All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.” — Magic Johnson

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

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21. "You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.” — Michelle Obama

22. "Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don’t. You are in good company… You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.” — John Piper

23. "May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." — Nelson Mandela

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

25. "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

26. "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

27. "This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

28. "I inhale hope with every breath I take." — Sharon Kay Penman

29. "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

30. "We need hope, or else we cannot endure.” —Sarah J. Maas

31. "Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate." — G.K. Chesterton

32. "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 Lagacé

33. "In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer." — Albert Camus

34. "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

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

36. "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

37. "There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow." — O. S. Marden

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

39. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

40. "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

41. "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

42. "I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best." — Benjamin Disraeli

43. "You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated." — Maya Angelou

44. "A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope." — Thomas Carlyle

45. "We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

47. "Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope." — Elizabeth Gilbert

48. "This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.” — David Nicholls

49. "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

50. "But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

51. "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

52. "No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.” — Lupita Nyong'o

53. "The darkest hours are just before dawn." — English Proverb

54. "I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution." — Werner von Braun

55. "Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process." — Brené Brown

56. "As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by." — Lao Tzu

57. "Keep your best wishes close to your heart and watch what happens." — Tony DeLiso

58. "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

59. "Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be." — Don Quixote

60. "Hope never abandons you, you abandon it." — George Weinberg

61. "You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” — William Faulkner

62. "Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." — Martin Luther

63. "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” — Anatole France

64. "Hope is a​n embrace of the unknown​." — Rebecca Solnit

65. "When you stop hoping you start settling." — Valorie Burton

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66. "Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible." — William Sloane Coffin

67. "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

68. "We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope." — Manel Loureiro

69. "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

70. "A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope." — Shannon K. Butcher

71. "Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” — Jonas Salk

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

73. "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 Spurgeon

74. "There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” — Bernard Williams

75. "The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.” — Barack Obama

76. "Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” — Mae Jemison

77. "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

78. "Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about." — Winston Churchill

79. "I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope." — Joel Osteen

80. "We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.” — John Green

81. "Hope is the ocean for the river, the sun for trees and the sky for us." — Maxime Lagacé