List Of Quotes and Wise Sayings On Hope

List Of Quotes and Wise Sayings On Hope

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old hope quotes, hope sayings, and hope proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.      

Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)

 

Every cloud has a silver lining.      

D.R. Locke (1863)

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

R. Cotgrave (1611)

Every pot will find its lid.     

Yiddish (on marriage)

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.      

Thomas Norton & Thomas Sackville (1536-1608)

Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.      

W. Rawley (1661)

Hope springs eternal.      

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

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However long the night, the dawn will break.      

African Proverb – Hausa Tribe

If it were not for hope, the heart would break.      

Greek (on attitude)

Keep your eyes on the sun and you will not see the shadows.      

Australian Aborigine Saying

Look at the bright side.      

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Never give up hope.      

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No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.     

Native American (on impossibility)

The darkest hours are just before dawn.      

English Proverb

Where there’s life, there’s hope.      

Theocritus (c.270 BC)

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.     

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Desmond Tutu

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

 

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.      

Robert H. Schuller

 

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

Samuel Smiles

 

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Martin Luther King Jr.

 

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

 

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

 

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

Tony DeLiso

 

Walk on with hope in your heart, and you’ll never walk alone

Shah Rukh Khan

 

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

Theodore Roosevelt

 

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

 

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

Catherine Pulsifer

 

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

Emil Brunner

Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is a characteristic of all living beings.     

Edward S. Ame

 

Hope is a beautiful thing. It gives us peace and strength, and keeps us going when all seems lost. Accepting what you cannot change doesn’t mean you have given up on hope. It just means you have to focus your hope on more humanly tangible and attainable goals.

Julie Donner Andersen

 

As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by     

Hong Kong Proverb

 

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

 

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

 

Hope 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

 

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.

Christopher Reeve

 

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Robert G. Ingersoll

 

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.      

Vincent McNabb

 

You’ve gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less.     

Author Unknown

 

Hope is passion for what is possible

Soren Kierkegaard

 Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.

Thomas Fuller

 

Hope is medicine for a soul that’s sick and tired.

Eric Swensson

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

O. S. Marden

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Abraham Cowley

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

Samuel Smiles

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

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

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

Manel Loureiro

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.     

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

Henry Ward Beecher