128 Hope Quotes for Hard Times
Hope keeps us going even in the darkest moments, so we’ve gathered all the best hope quotes to inspire strength, faith, and a brighter tomorrow.
And if you’re looking for short hope sayings for Instagram, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Short Hope Quotes for Instagram
“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.
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”— Desmond Tutu
“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
“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”— J. R. R. Tolkien
“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”— Jonas Salk
“Hope is a waking dream.”— Aristotle
“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
“Never give up. Have hope. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it.”— Catherine Pulsifer
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”— Helen Keller
“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.”— Robert Green Ingersoll
“Hope is a passion for the possible.”— Søren Kierkegaard
“We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Still, if I don’t believe in the possibility, I might go mad from fear.”— Libbie Hawker
“There’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’re prepared for the worst.”— Stephen King
“That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.”— Charles Bukowski
“Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulant to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that remains.”— Anne Frank
“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”— Suzanne Collins (President Snow, The Hunger Games)
“Out of difficulties grow miracles.”— Jean de La Bruyère
“Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will come to you in abundance.”— Steve Maraboli
“Stay hopeful; you never know what tomorrow will bring.”
“The birds of hope are everywhere; listen to them.”— Terri Guillemets
“We can easily forgive a child afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”— Plato
“When you are struggling and start thinking about giving up, remember the power of hope.”— Michelle Obama
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the Present.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”— Stephen King
“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything.”— Thomas Carlyle
“Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.”— Emanuel Cleaver
“Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.”— Mignon McLaughlin
“We have always held to the hope, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
“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
“The world needs less heat and more light. It needs less of the heat of anger, revenge, retaliation, and more of the light of ideas, faith, courage, aspiration, joy, love and hope.”— Wilferd Peterson
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”— Maya Angelou
“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
“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.”— G.K. Chesterton
“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.”— E. Joseph Cossman
“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”— Robert H. Schuller
“Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.” – W. Rawley
“Keep your eyes on the sun and you will not see the shadows.” – Australian Aborigine Saying
“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
“What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.” – Emil Brunner
“Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.” – Robert G. Ingersoll
“Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.” – Thomas Fuller
“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 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 sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“Every jack has his jill; if only they can find each other.” – R. Cotgrave
“Every pot will find its lid.” – Yiddish (on marriage)
“Hope springs eternal.” – Alexander Pope
“Where there’s life, there’s hope.” – Theocritus
“Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is a characteristic of all living beings.” – Edward S. Ame
“As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by” – Hong Kong Proverb
“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” – Christopher Reeve
“You’ve gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less.” – Author Unknown
“We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope.” – Manel Loureiro
“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.” – Francis Bacon
“Hope is the dream of a soul awake.” – French Proverb
“While I breathe, I hope.” – Latin Proverb
“He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.” – Suzanne Gibbs Taylor
“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it… The only real security… is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” – Henry Ford
“Seeing another caterpillar who believed enough to make his own cocoon. And that peculiar hope which had kept her off the pillar and leapt within her when she heard about butterflies.” – Trina Paulus
“Hope is an indication of certainly, a strong and confident expectation.” – Krishna J. Guilbeau
“Renewed hope can usher us into the presence of God.” – Diane K Hiltz Chamberlain
Hope Quotes for Hard Times
“When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”—Theodore Roosevelt
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”— Leonard Cohen
“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
“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
“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
“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
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”— Pablo Neruda
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”— William Faulkner
“A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope.”— Geraldine Solon
“Hope is a renewable resource. If you run out of hope at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.”— Barbara Kingsolver
“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”— Roy T. Bennett
“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
“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”— J.R.R. Tolkien
“Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.”— Leon Joseph Suenens
“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.”— Robert Green Ingersoll
“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
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”— Albert Einstein
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”— Oprah Winfrey
“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
“Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.”— George Weinberg
“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 smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…”— Alfred Lord Tennyson
“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
“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 is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained, hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.”— Erik Erikson
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”— Desmond Tutu
“You are full of unshaped dreams. You are laden with beginnings…There is hope in you…”— Lola Ridge
“Whether you’ve seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.”— Martha Beck
“There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.”— Pearl S. Buck
“A drowning man will clutch at a straw.” – Sir Thomas More
“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)
“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.” – Samuel Smiles
“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
“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
“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
“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.” – Vincent McNabb
“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 tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.” – Paul Laurence Dunbar
“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
“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” – Anne Frank
“Every cloud has a silver lining.” – D.R. Locke
“Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.” – Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville
“The darkest hours are just before dawn.” – English Proverb
“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.” – Markus Zusak
“Will but refuse to lose heart and hope.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“In all things it is better to hope than to despair.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.” – George Iles
“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” – Joseph Addison
“What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.” – Maya Angelou
“A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.” – Chuck Norris
“Hope comes from different channels of existence, and what I do know is when all hope is gonem everything else is gone: a will to fight, to live, to press on.” – Krishna J. Guilbeau
“When you steal someone’s hope, when you take someone’s hope or even prey on someone’s hope: you have taken away their drive to live.” – Krishna J. Guilbeau
“Faith is hope, love is hope, prayer is hope, and we need to be each others hope. A life is unpredictable, a life is uncertain, but you should try having a conversation of hope, and you’ll see that God is undeniable.” – Krishna J. Guilbeau
“We can feel locked within a prison cell of problems; but there is hope because Jesus holds the key that fits the lock, of our prison door of despair.” – Diane K Hiltz Chamberlain
“Learning on our own understanding, will only cause a fall; but when we lean on God, as a crutch of strength and a crutch of hope, then we will be lifted up, above despair.” – Diane K Hiltz Chamberlain
“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes
