Hope QuotesHope quotes have the power to bring a spark of light into the eyes of one who is suffering. Robert Frost reminds us to, “Entertain great hopes.” Hope keeps us moving forward when no logical reason exists. The most sacred place dwells within our heart, where dreams are born and secrets sleep, a mystical refuge of darkness and light, fear and conquest, adventure and discovery, challenge and transformation. Our heart speaks for our soul every moment while we are alive. Listen... as the whispering beat repeats: be...gin, be...gin, be...gin. It's really that simple. Just begin... again. Royce Addington The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. Walter Anderson My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done, and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. Maya Angelou Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell. Lance Armstrong Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. Emory Austin Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. Sarah Ban Breathnach Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. Lyman Frank Baum A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon Bonaparte Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it. Napoleon Bonaparte It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. Marion Zimmer Bradley Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. Rita Mae Brown A smile is nature's best antidote for discouragement. It brings rest to the weary, sunshine to those who are frowning, and hope to those who are hopeless and defeated. A smile is so valuable that it can't be bought, begged, borrowed, or taken away against your will. You have to be willing to give a smile away before it can do anyone else any good. So if someone is too tired or grumpy to flash you a smile, let him have one of yours anyway. Nobody needs a smile as much as the person who has none to give. Dale Carnegie 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 We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. Jimmy Carter There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner. G.K. Chesterton To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. G.K. Chesterton Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope. Norm Chomsky Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. Tom Clancy The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. Norman Cousins Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. Abraham Cowley I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. Dalai Lama Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Edward de Bono Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough. Richard M. DeVos In your heart, keep one still secret spot where dreams may go and be sheltered so they may thrive and grow. Louise Driscoll The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. Will Durant It is a fact of life that we find ourselves in unpleasant demoralizing situations which we can neither escape nor control. We can keep our morale and spirits high by using both coping and hoping humor. Coping humor laughs at the hopelessness in our situation. It gives us the courage to hang in there, but it does not bring hope. The uniqueness of hoping humor lies in its acceptance of life with all its dichotomies, contradictions, and incongruities. It celebrates the hope in human life. From one comes courage, from the other comes inspiration. Cy Eberhart If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. Albert Einstein Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. Albert Einstein There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and to be healed, to have despaired and recovered hope. George Elliot The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson We judge a man’s wisdom by his hope. Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. F. Scott Fitzgerald Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. Henry Ford You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis. Henry Ford He that lives upon hope will die fasting. Benjamin Franklin To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. Erich Fromm Entertain great hopes. Robert Frost I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death. Robert Fulghum Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on. Gloria Gaither The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. Elizabeth Gilbert Learn to shake yourself loose from what the world believes is the only reality. Neville Goddard It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. Robert H. Goddard Every act of creating is an act of power, an act of hope. Pam Grout 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 Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering. James Hillman Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts - it's what you do with what you have left. Hubert Humphrey A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader. Daisaku Ikeda Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. Robert G. Ingersoll In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. Michael Jackson All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and someone who believes in them. Earvin "Magic" Johnson Marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Samuel Johnson Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Each time we stand up for an ideal, or act to improve the lot of others, or strike out against injustice, we send forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Robert F. Kennedy Someday we'll find it, that rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers, and me. Kermit When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better. Pauline R. Kezer Let sorrowful longing dwell in your heart. Never give up, never lose hope. Allah says, The broken ones are my beloved. Crush your heart. Be broken. Shaikh Abu Saeed Abil Kheir Hope is passion for what is possible. Søren Kierkegaard Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. Martin Luther King, Jr. If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. Martin Luther King, Jr. We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King, Jr. The very least you can do in your life is to 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 Angels encourage us by guiding us onto a path that will lead to happiness and hope. Andy Lakey 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 Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one. John Lennon My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth, Abraham Lincoln Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air…but only for one second without hope. Hal Lindsey There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them. Clare Boothe Luce Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Martin Luther There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. Orison S. Marden No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away. David Matthew After all, tomorrow is another day. Margaret Mitchell We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals – opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope. Barack Obama We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. Barack Obama If you want the rainbow, you’ve got to put up with the rain. Dolly Parton Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. Norman Vincent Peale Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. Norman Vincent Peale There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces – and success, instead of eluding him, flows toward him. Norman Vincent Peale Consult not your fears but your hopes and your 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 I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. J. B. Priestly Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours. Swedish proverb We all find ourselves in situations that at times seem hopeless. And, we all have the choice to do nothing or take action. Catherine Pulsifer Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. Ayn Rand When you choose hope, anything’s possible. Christopher Reeve There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness. Bertrand Russell Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. Saint Francis of Assisi Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. Robert H. Schuller 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 the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come. Sydney Smith A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Henri B. Stendhal To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson Hope is medicine for a soul that's sick and tired. Eric Swensson The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Where there’s life, there’s hope. Terence Friends...they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. Henry David Thoreau For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future. Elie Wiesel We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days til they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. Woodrow Wilson 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 when you forget that errand. Woodrow Wilson A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. Oprah Winfrey We live by admiration, hope and love. William Wordsworth Return from Hope Quotes and Sayings about Hope to the Quotes Listed by Subject page
|
Hope Quotes 
Search Joy of Quotes:
