Sometimes life is easy and feels positive and light.
At other times it can get tough and feel a lot heavier.
If you’re in such a period right now then today’s post is for you.
In it I want to share 130 of the most motivational, positive and inspirational quotes about hope.
To give you a jolt of energy and new motivation. To comfort you and give you the courage to take action despite rattling setbacks.
And to remind you that it’s darkest before the dawn and that things will work out if you keep on moving forward (even if that’s one small step at a time).
Motivational Quotes About Hope and Strength
“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.”
– Jonas Salk
“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
“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
“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”
– Saint Augustine
“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
“In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.”
– Fritz Knapp
“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
“When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
– William Faulkner
“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“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
“There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.”
– Dalai Lama
“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”
– Roy T. Bennett
“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.”
– Maya Angelou
“Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.”
– Samuel Smiles
“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward.”
– Nelson Mandela
“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 sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
“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 have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.”
– Werner von Braun
“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
Quotes About Hope to Comfort You During Hard Times
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
– Desmond Tutu
“The darkest hours are just before dawn.”
– English Proverb
“Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
“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
“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“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
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
“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
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
– José N. Harris
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
– George Eliot
“Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.”
– E.B. White
“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.”
– Bernard Williams
“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
“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”
– Stephenie Meyer
“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
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
– Anne Frank
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
– Oscar Wilde
“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”
– Baruch Spinoza
“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
Short and Powerful Quotes About Hope
“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”
– Christopher Reeve
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
“Hope is passion for what is possible.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“Hope is a waking dream.”
– Aristotle
“I dwell in possibility.”
– Emily Dickinson
“Hope costs nothing.”
– Colette
“While there’s life, there’s hope.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Hope is an embrace of the unknown.”
– Rebecca Solnit
“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
“Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.”
– Martin Luther
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast.”
– Alexander Pope
“To live without hope is to cease to live.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”
– George Washington Carver
“Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.”
– George Weinberg
“Dark times are not hopeless times.”
– David Goggins
“We need hope, or else we cannot endure.”
– Sarah J. Maas
“I always entertain great hopes.”
– Robert Frost
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.”
– Lupita Nyong’o
“Hope is the last thing ever lost.”
– Italian Proverb
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
– Nelson Mandela
Quotes on Hope to Give You a Jolt of Energy
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain
“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”
– Mae Jemison
“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
– Amy Tan
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.”
– Amanda Gorman
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
– Albert Einstein
“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
– David Nicholls
“Fear never builds the future, but hope does.”
– Joe Biden
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
– Helen Keller
“Never give up. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it.”
– Catherine Pulsifer
“Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.”
– William Sloane Coffin
“In a time of destruction, create something.”
– Maxine Hong Kingston
“I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.”
– Will Smith
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
– Anatole France
“When you stop hoping you start settling.”
– Valorie Burton
“The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.”
– Indira Gandhi
“Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.”
– Barack Obama
“It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
– John Guare
“A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change.”
– Jan Dargatz
“If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful and Inspirational Quotes and Sayings About Hope
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”
– O. S. Marden
“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.”
– Lu Xun
“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
“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
– Shel Silverstein
“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
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
– Robert Fulghum
“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
“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 is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.”
– Samuel Smiles
“You are full of unshaped dreams… You are laden with beginnings… There is hope in you…”
– Lola Ridge
“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
– Anne Frank
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.”
– Alexandre Dumas
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier.’”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”
– Gustave Flaubert
“Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.”
– Victor Hugo
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
– Pablo Neruda
“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight.”
– C. JoyBell C.
“We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope.”
– Manel Loureiro
“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.”
– Samuel Johnson
“What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.”
– Emil Brunner
“However long the night, the dawn will break.”
– African Proverb
Positive Quotes on Hope for Perseverance and Resilience
“You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.”
– Maya Angelou
“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”
– Robert H. Schuller
“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
“Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
– Stephen King
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
– Thomas Edison
“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
“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 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
“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
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”
– John Green
“A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope.”
– Shannon K. Butcher
“Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn’t give up.”
– Matt Haig
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
– Bill Keane
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
– Aristotle
“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
“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 moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.”
– J.M. Barrie
“For every dark night there’s a brighter day.”
– Tupac Shakur
“Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.”
– John Wayne
“Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.”
– Thomas Fuller
“There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.”
– C.S. Lewis
Want more inspiration and uplifting motivation? Then have a look at these quotes about change, the motivational quotes for success here and also at this one with lots of positive quotes for life.