Inspirational Quotes About Hope For The Future

“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” – Brad Henry

“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

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

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

“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

“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


“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

“But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” – Isaiah 40:31


“‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’” – Jeremiah 29:11


“To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” – Colossians 1:27


“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” – Romans 15:13


“Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.” – 1 Corinthians 13:13


”You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety. “ – Job 11:18-19

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou


“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


“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.” – Gustave Flaubert


“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.” – Stephen Ambrose


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


“The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it is just the full dimensionality of your own capacity to feel that returns.” – Susan Griffin


“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


“Love without hope will not survive, love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and faith.” – Toba Beta


“How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?” – Nicholas Sparks

“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


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


“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


“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” – Nelson Mandela


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


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


”A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change.” – Jan Dargatz

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


“You are not here merely to make a living, you are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” – Woodrow Wilson


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


“All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.” – Magic Johnson

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

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

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

“I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.” – Arthur Miller

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

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

“Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.” – Charles Lindbergh

“A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.” – Charles M. Schulz

“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything.” – Thomas Carlyle

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


“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.” – William Shakespeare

“Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle

Short Quotes About Hope For The Future

“Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.” – Tena Desae

“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’ when things are tough.” – Richard M. DeVos

“A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don’t have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perseverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.” – Robert Kraft

“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

“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

“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

“The promise of a hopeful future is motivation for the pursuit of my dreams.”

“If there is hope in the future, there is literally power in the present.” Zig Ziglar

“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.”- Thomas Carlyle

“The oil of hope makes life’s machinery run smoothly.”- James Lendall Basford

“Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” – Helen Keller

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

“Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.”- Martin Luther King Jr

“Faith and hope work hand in hand, however, while hope focuses on the future, faith focuses on the now.” – David Odunaiya

“Have a vision for yourself. You need to have foresight into your future – your goals, your dreams, what you want to achieve for yourself.” – Matthew Lewis Browne

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

“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.”- Vincent McNabb

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Malcolm X

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

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”― Nelson Mandela

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.”― John Green

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

“Hope is the one thing that sometimes keeps us going.” – Catherine Pulsifer

“It’s the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.”― Nicholas Sparks

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

“The start of something new brings the hope of something great, anything is possible.”

“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”― Walter Benjamin

“Nothing can be accomplished without the hope of accomplishment.” – Jennifer Arnold

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

“When life’s broken places lead us to Jesus, ultimately we will find hope.” – Renee Swope

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

“He who has no hope and who expects not to achieve anything, will never do so.” – C Butler

“The difference between hope and despair is the ability to believe in tomorrow.” – Jerry Grillo“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Never give up. Have hope. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it.” – Catherine Pulsifer“When we go to Him in prayer, He gives us hope and strength to handle the impossible.” – Shane DeCreshio

“Even when the world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.” – Pittacus Lore

Quotes About Hope In Hard Times

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

“Anticipate good things will happen, keep your mind positive, never lose hope, and it will amaze you.” – C Pulsifer

“Never let go of hope – dream, take action, and get that transfer to live the life you wish.” – Catherine Pulsifer

“Hope is possible. Hope comes when we exchange the incorrect way we see the world for the lens of grace.” – James Prescott

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

“Realistic thinking is where real hope is found; helping us hit the right balance between realism and aspirations.” – M. P.

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

“There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.” – Napoleon Hill

“You cannot change anyone but yourself. Always hope for the best, but keep living your life no matter what.” – Kate Anderson

“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

“Even your past pain can be a blessing to someone. Hope lifters are willing to reach back and pass hope on.” – Kathe Wunnenberg

“If we expect change, we must act on our hope every day until we have accomplished what we wanted.” – Christopher Goodman

“A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change.” – Jan Dargatz

“Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.” – Jesse Jackson

“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

“But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.” – Edgar Guest

“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

“An unsinkable, hopeful spirit can sustain you for a long distance as you sojourn on your personal growth journey through life.” – Shadonna Richards

“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

“Hope enables us to walk, while fear leaves us immobilized. Fear is all about what we can’t do or what others might do to us.” – Michelle Lynn Brown

“There is always hope for a new day, hope that the darkness won’t always seem impenetrable. There is always hope because our Redeemer lives.” – Marcia Laycock

“I haven’t always been successful, but I’ve always had hope. I’ve always known that if I kept plugging away and doing my best, I’d be successful.” – Les Brown“Hope is not about proving anything. It’s about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.”― Anne Lamott

“It’s always something, to know you’ve done the most you could. But, don’t leave off hoping, or it’s of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last.” – Charles Dickens

“Hope, as it pertains to love, is a good thing because by hoping for certain things such as an extended future with the one you love is made possible.” – John Franks

“No matter the number of times you fail you must be determined to succeed. You must not lose hope. Don’t stop in your storm. Don’t give up so easily.” – Tony Narams

“Whatever the magnitude of your regret, and whatever the cause, I have a word of hope for you: This is not the end. You don’t have to stay stuck in regret.” – Dave Ferguson

“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

“But I know there is a future and a hope for those who trust in God and allow him to beautify the ugly messes we often find ourselves in, often through no fault of our own.” – Olivia Hope

“Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory. It’s a renewable resource for moving through life as it is, not as we wish it to be.” – Krista Tippett

“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

“Hope can be seen out in the garden in a plant that grows from a tiny seed. At first it struggles through the soil, but it persists and continues to go on until it becomes an imposing tree, and then it starts bearing fruit.” – Robert Smith

“Hope isn’t the same as optimism. It isn’t the belief that something bad will turn out well. It’s the absolute confidence that every part of your life ultimately makes sense regardless of how it turns out this side of eternity.” – Rick Warren

“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

“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 humanely tangible and attainable goals.” – Julie Donner Andersen

“Anybody who has ever struggled to plant his feet onto the floor in the morning knows that life can be hard; it can be stressful; it can be overwhelming. But each of those negative, less than optimal feelings immediately takes a back seat to the inspirational power of hope.” – Shawn L. Anderson

Quotes About Hope And Strength

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

“Hope is a waking dream.” — Aristotle

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

“I always entertain great hopes.” — Robert Frost

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

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

“Every cloud has a silver lining.” — John Milson

“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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” — Nelson Mandela

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

“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

“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

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

“I inhale hope with every breath I take.” — Sharon Kay Penman

“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

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“You are full of unshaped dreams… You are laden with beginnings… There is hope in you…” — Lola Ridge

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

“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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

Hope Short Quotes

“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.” — Thomas Carlyle

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.” — Lupita Nyong’o

“The darkest hours are just before dawn.” — English Proverb

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

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

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

“Keep your best wishes close to your heart and watch what happens.” — Tony DeLiso

“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

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

“Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.” — George Weinberg

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

“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” — Martin Luther

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

“Hope is a​n embrace of the unknown​.” — Rebecca Solnit

“When you stop hoping you start settling.” — Valorie Burton

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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.” — Joel Osteen

“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

“I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.” — Will Smith

“There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.” — C. S. Lewis

“What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.” — George Eliot

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