22 Quotes About Hope to Stop You From Giving Up

Nothing is more powerful than hope. Life isn’t easy for any of us. There are days we feel low, and it just feels like everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. It is in these low moments that hope is the most useful.

We bring your quotes from greats such as Helen Keller and Martin Luther King, Jr. to help lift you up. There is always a light at the end of the tunnel and these hope quotes are here to help you remember that in your darkest hours.

1. “Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” – Jonas Salk

2. “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

3. “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

4. “Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

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

7. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

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

9. “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu

10. “There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise of hope.” – Bernard Williams

11. “Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” – Robert H. Schuller

12. “Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” – Robert Green Ingersoll

13. “Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.” – Emanuel Cleaver

14. “To live without hope is to cease to live.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

15. “Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle

16. “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

17. “Fear never builds the future, but hope does.” —Joe Biden

18. Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

20. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly – Langston Hughes

21. “Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies” – Stephen King

22. “Hope has wings that make it fly” -Richard Mwebesa

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