80 Powerful Hope Quotes

If you believe that life is always fair and designed to be only a joyful ride, think again. If you expect that life owes you something, you may be setting yourself up for massive disappointment. That’s because life can sometimes be quite unfair. It will throw curveballs at you and will confront you with obstacles that seem larger-than-life. It is also possible that you will encounter stages of life during which trials and tribulations will rain down upon you. During these difficult times, it simply takes a lot of hope and encouragement to keep going. It’s that little spark of hope that motivates you to see things through – no matter how difficult it gets. In fact, hope is possibly the most important factor when it comes to overcoming the great challenges of life. For this reason, we’ve created a huge collection of powerful help quotes. These are the brilliant quotes about hope that will help you to keep going even then the going gets tough.

The importance of hope cannot be stressed enough. When you’re hopeful that the future will be better, you are willing to do everything it takes to make it happen. However, when you’ve already lost hope, it’s very likely that nothing will ever change about your situation.

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

Willpower, determination, and strength alone will not help you to overcome whatever you’re struggling with. Sure, they are important characteristics. However, the key ingredient that makes everything else possible is hope. It’s your hope for a better future that motivates you to make great sacrifices in the present.

Enjoy the following collection of empowering hope quotes.

Sadly enough, hope is massively underestimated. In fact, it doesn’t even have a very good reputation. This is because many associate naivety and blind faith with the term ‘hope’. Nothing could be further from the truth. Since the early 1990s, scientists and psychologists have found more and more evidence of the great importance of hope – Charles Snyder’s Hope Theory is just one of them.

To celebrate the great power of hope, we’ve created the following collection of hope quotes.

80 Powerful Hope Quotes

What is so beautiful about the following hope quotes is that they stem from people who have conquered great difficulties during their lifetimes. As such, they know how difficult life can be and which important role the concept of hope plays. Their vast experiences have shown them that anything can be accomplished or overcome – if you have hope. Enjoy the following hope quotes.

Here are these powerful quotes about hope

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

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“We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something – with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish.”
Haruki Murakami

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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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

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

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

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“Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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“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

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“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”
Alain de Botton

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“Hope is a waking dream.”
Aristotle

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

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“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

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“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
J.R.R. Tolkien

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“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

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

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“Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
G.K. Chesterton

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“If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.”
Thomas Fuller

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“That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.”
Charles Bukowski

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“Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.”
Pittacus Lore

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“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps 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.

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“We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.”
John Calvin

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“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

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“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming – well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
Amy Tan

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“Hope?’ he says. ‘There is always hope, John. New developments have yet to present themselves. Not all the information is in. No. Don’t give up hope just yet. It’s the last thing to go. 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

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“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 XIV

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“It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up.”
C.J. Redwine

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

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“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

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“Hope is a force of nature. Don’t let anyone tell you different.”
Jim Butcher

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“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.”
Steve Maraboli

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“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

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

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

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“Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, ‘Wait and Hope.”
Alexandre Dumas

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“Hope can get you through anything.”
Jamie Ford

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“To hear the phrase “our only hope” always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn’t work, there is nothing left.”
Lemony Snicket

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“It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
John Guare

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“While there’s life, there’s hope.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something. The more futile, the more useless, the more irrelevant and incomprehensible an act of rebellion is, the vaster and more potent hope becomes.”
Chris Hedges

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“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

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“Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest.
The soul, uneasy, and confin’d from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”
Alexander Pope

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“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”
Jane Austen

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

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“Hope costs nothing.”
Colette

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“Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.”
David Orr

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“In an age of hope, men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens.” In an age of hopelessness, they call it simply “space.”
Peter Kreeft

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

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“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

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

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

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“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something.”
Howard Zinn

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“Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as the soldier said about happiness) something that you might just as well do, since, in the end, it really makes no difference to anyone but you?”
Kate DiCamillo

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“I am, and always will be, the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams.”
Eleventh Doctor

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“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”
John Green

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“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

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“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
Stephen King

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“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

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“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

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“Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante’s hell is the inscription: “Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.”
Jürgen Moltmann

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“What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope.”
Thomas Merton

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“The past is made out of facts… I guess the future is just hope.”
Isaac Marion

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“Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach

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“In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.”
Victor Hugo

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“Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope”
David Archuleta

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“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
Arthur Golden

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“Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”
Kālidāsa

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“While the heart beats, hope lingers.”
Alison Croggon

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“Hope does not leave without being given permission.”
Rick Riordan

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“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”
Jane Austen

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“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”
Albert Camus

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“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
Francis Bacon

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“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
Paulo Coelho

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“Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you’ll land among the stars”
Cecelia Ahern

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“Hope keeps you alive.”
Lauren Olive

I hope you enjoyed this collection of powerful hope quotes.

Stay victorious!