500 Inspirational Hope Quotes To Get You Through 2023

1. "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

2. “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

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

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

5. Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is a characteristic of all living beings. —Edward S. Ame.RD.COM

6. "Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday."— John Wayne

7. The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. —Kalu Ndukwe Kalu.RD.COM

8. “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

9. If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. – Henry David Thoreau

10. “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

11. "Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…” — Alfred Lord Tennyson

12. Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. —Stephen King.RD.COM

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

14. “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

15. Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. – Christopher Reeve

16. “Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve. Provoke yourself by recollection, and your affection for God will increase tenfold; your imagination will not be starved any longer, but will be quick and enthusiastic, and your hope will be inexpressibly bright.” -Oswald Chambers

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

18. “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”

19. “When everything else tells you to “give up,” hope whispers try it one more time.” ~ Invajy

20. “In all things it is better to hope than to despair.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

21. “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

22. Everything that is done in this world is done by hope. - Martin Luther

23. 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 SnicketRD.COM

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

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

26. When you stop hoping, you are on the vestibule of hell, for there is no hope there. – A. J. Cronin

27. "Once you choose hope, anything’s possible."— Christopher Reeve

28. 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

29. "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

30. “However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope.” ~ Stephen Hawking

31. "Keep your best wishes close to your heart and watch what happens."— Tony DeLiso

32. “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

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

34. 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

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

36. “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” ~ James A. Michener

37. We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken. —Albert Einstein.RD.COM

38. “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

39. "May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."— Nelson Mandela

40. 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.RD.COM

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

42. All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them. - Magic Johnson

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

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

45. “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

46. There can be no hope without faith in Christ, for hope is rooted in him alone. Faith without hope would, by itself, be empty and futile. - Ernst Hoffmann

47. "Hope never abandons you, you abandon it."— George Weinberg

48. "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

49. “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

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

51. Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. - Elie Wiesel

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

53. 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

54. “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

55. "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

56. "When you stop hoping you start settling."— Valorie Burton

57. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. - Romans 12:12

58. "A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.” — Howard Thurman

59. "No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.” — Lupita Nyong'o

60. “Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.” ~ Thomas Fuller

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

62. When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on. —Theodore Roosevelt.RD.COM

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

64. 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. —Wilfred PetersonRD.COM

65. Hope is the only tie which keeps the heart from breaking. – Thomas Fuller

66. “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 live as one.”

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

68. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. – Bill Keane

69. “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

70. Only in the darkness can you see the stars. – Martin Luther King Jr.

71. All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. – Alexandre Dumas

72. “Without Christ there is no hope.” -Charles Spurgeon

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

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

75. The future belongs to those who belong to God. This is hope. – W. T. Purkiser

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

77. "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

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

79. A leader is a dealer of hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte

80. "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

81. Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. – Victor Hugo

82. There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for. —J.R.R. TolkienRD.COM

83. "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

84. “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

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

86. “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.

87. “Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

88. “We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.” -Pope Francis

89. “Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.” ~ Abraham Cowley

90. 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

91. “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.

92. The world hopes for the best, but Jesus Christ offers the best hope. – John Wesley White

93. “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.”

94. “Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.” ~ Lao Tzu

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

96. "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

97. But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. - Isaiah 40:31

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

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

100. "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

101. "You are full of unshaped dreams… You are laden with beginnings… There is hope in you…"— Lola Ridge

102. “Our righteousness is in Him, and our hope depends, not upon the exercise of grace in us, but upon the fullness of grace and love in Him, and upon His obedience unto death.” -John Newton

103. ”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

104. "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. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.” — Nelson Mandela

105. 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. — National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda GormanRD.COM

106. “Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.” – Samuel Smiles

107. What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God. -Rick Warren

108. “We need hope, or else we cannot endure.” ~ Sara J. Maas

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

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

111. "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

112. "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."— Aristotle

113. “The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It’s enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrows currently assail us aren’t worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.” -Joni Eareckson Tada

114. “We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.” —Albert Einstein.

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

116. Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. – Pliny the Elder

117. "What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life."— Emil Brunner

118. “The only hope for this or any other society is to hear the Word of the Lord and obey.” -John MacArthur

119. Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. - Robert H. Schuller

120. “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.

121. 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

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

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

124. “Every cloud has a silver lining.” ~ John Milson

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

126. “Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust.” ~ Charles Swindoll

127. 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 live as one. —John LennonRD.COM

128. “Hope is medicine for a soul that’s sick and tired.” ~ Eric Swensson

129. Hoping is disciplined waiting. - Ernst Hoffmann

130. 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

131. Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process. – Brene Brown

132. "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

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

134. What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God. -Rick Warren

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

136. "Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion."— Thomas Fuller

137. “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

138. When hope animates us there is a vigour in the whole body. - John Calvin

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

140. “A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.” – Howard Thurman

141. "A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope."— Thomas Carlyle

142. Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. - Napoleon Bonaparte

143. 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

144. “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

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

146. Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. - Victor Hugo

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

148. "Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."— Helen Keller

149. Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless. – G. K. Chesterton

150. “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

151. As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. – Lao Tzu

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

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

154. As God is the author of our salvation, so Christ is the embodiment of our hope. - Geoffrey B. Wilson

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

156. “In a time of destruction, create something.” —Maxine Hong Kingston. These are the best one-liners from movies that you’ll want to say over and over again.

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

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

159. If that's not something to smile about,

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

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

162. “The whole world survives on hope.” ~ Invajy

163. 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

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

165. "Hope is a waking dream.” — Aristotle

166. “The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.” -Timothy Keller

167. God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world. - Billy Graham

168. "I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” — Anne Frank

169. “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

170. “Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It 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

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

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

173. “All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. “ ~ Alexandre Dumas

174. "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

175. “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

176. Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!' — Audrey Hepburn

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

178. “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

179. “None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.” ~ Paulo Coelho

180. “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

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

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

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

184. "Hope is the ocean for the river, the sun for trees and the sky for us."— Maxime Lagacé

185. 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

186. I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. - Anne Frank

187. 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

188. May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. - Nelson Mandela

189. “While there’s life, there’s hope.” ~ Marcus Tulius Cicero

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

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

192. "Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."— Thomas Edison

193. Christ showed us hope transformed into sacrificial love. -Chuck Colson

194. “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

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

196. "Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day."— E.B. White

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

198. It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday. —John Guare.RD.COM

199. "While there’s life, there’s hope."— Marcus Tullius Cicero

200. “Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.” ~ Samuel Smiles

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

202. Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process. - Brene Brown

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

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

205. “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

206. The following hope quotations are pulled straight from scripture. Add them to your daily prayers or to a new wall cross to remind you of the power of hope.

207. "Every cloud has a silver lining."— John Milson

208. Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever. - Roy T. Bennett

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

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

211. “‘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

212. “It is because of hope that you suffer. It is through hope that you’ll change things.” ~ Maxime Legacé

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

214. Fear never builds the future, but hope does. —Joe Biden.RD.COM

215. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas Edison

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

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

218. Hope is patience with the lamp lit. - Tertullian

219. "I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best."— Benjamin Disraeli

220. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

221. Profile of an African American Teenager with hope for the future.

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

223. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~ Confucius

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

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

226. “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

227. "Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. Hope without critical thinking is naïveté."— Maria Popova

228. For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. - Romans 15:4

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

230. "Hope springs eternal in the human breast."— Alexander Pope

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

232. I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

234. "To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect."— Jane Austen

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

236. "Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."— Lillian Hellman

237. Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. - Christopher Reeve

238. "I inhale hope with every breath I take."— Sharon Kay Penman

239. "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

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

241. "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

242. “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

243. “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.”

244. “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” ~ Christopher Reeve

245. “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.”

246. In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced. —Fritz KnappRD.COM

247. "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

248. "Hope is a​n embrace of the unknown​."— Rebecca Solnit

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

250. “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” —Kalu Ndukwe Kalu.

251. He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. - Thomas Carlyle

252. “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.”

253. Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. - Samuel Smiles

254. 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

255. Young woman looks hopeful as she raises her eyes towards the sky.

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

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

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

259. “Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.” -John Piper

260. Hope is the last thing ever lost. —Italian proverbRD.COM

261. "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

262. Hoping is disciplined waiting. – Ernst Hoffmann

263. “Hope is a waking dream.” ~ Aristotle

264. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming—well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. —Amy Tan.RD.COM

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

266. “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.” —Wilfred Peterson.

267. 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

268. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Confucius

269. "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

270. “We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.” ~ John Green

271. Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. – Epictetus

272. "For every dark night there’s a brighter day."— Tupac

273. Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. - Romans 5:1-5

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

275. “You can look forward with hope, because one day there will be no more separation, no more scars, and no more suffering in My Father’s House. It's the home of your dreams!” -Anne Graham Lotz

276. Hope is a waking dream. —Aristotle.RD.COM

277. "The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep."— E. Joseph Cossman

278. “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.RD.COM

279. 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 FrankRD.COM

280. “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

281. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”

282. “Hope is a waking dream.” —Aristotle.

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

284. A leader is a dealer of hope. – Napoleon Bonaparte

285. Hope teaches endurance and an eager anticipation of that which will become reality. - Simon J. Kistemaker

286. “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.”

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

288. 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

289. “We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.” ~ François de la Rochefoucauld

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

291. The LORD delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love. - Psalm 147:11

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

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

294. He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. – Thomas Carlyle

295. I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. – Dalai Lama

296. 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

297. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. - Mahatma Gandhi

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

299. “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” ~ George Washington Carver

300. "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

301. “We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.” – Ed Markey

302. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. - Romans 15:13

303. I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. – Benjamin Disraeli

304. A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change. —Jan DargatzRD.COM

305. “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

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

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

308. "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

309. Never give up. Have hope. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it. —Catherine Pulsifer.RD.COM

310. Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. - Henry Rollins

311. "What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."— Oscar Wilde

312. "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

313. “Hope is the ocean for the river, the sun for trees and the sky for us.” ~ Maxime Legacé

314. "I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope."— Joel Osteen

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

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

317. I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again. - Anne Frank

318. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead - 1 Peter 1:3

319. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. - Elbert Hubbard

320. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope. – Stephen Hawking

321. A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning. - Brad Henry

322. "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

323. “The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity–hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory–because at the Father’s will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.” -J.I. Packer

324. "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

325. “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” —Leonard Cohen.

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

327. 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.RD.COM

328. "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

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

330. “Notice the word ‘hope” (in Psalm 62:5). The Hebrew term literally means “a cord, as an attachment.’ Every one of us is hanging on to something or someone for security. ... if it’s someone or something other than God alone, you’re hanging on by a thread – the wrong thread.” -Beth Moore

331. "A leader is a dealer in hope."— Napoleon Bonaparte

332. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. - Jeremiah 29:11

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

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

335. "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

336. “Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.” -Andy Stanley

337. “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

338. “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

339. “No matter where you are on your journey, that’s exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

340. “Hope is called the anchor of the soul (Hebrews 6:19) because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a ‘wish’ (I wish that such-and-such would take place); rather, it is that which latches on to the certainty of the promises of the future that God has made.” -RC Sproul

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

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

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

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

345. “I always entertain great hopes.” ~ Robert Frost

346. As God is the author of our salvation, so Christ is the embodiment of our hope. – Geoffrey B. Wilson

347. Hope teaches endurance and an eager anticipation of that which will become reality. – Simon J. Kistemaker

348. "People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them."— Flannery O’Connor

349. "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

350. “Work hard, hope for the best, leave on god to do the rest” ~ Invajy

351. “True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.” -Francis Chan

352. “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

353. "Everything that is done in the world is done by hope."— Martin Luther

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

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

356. Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. – Samuel Smiles

357. “Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus.” -Billy Graham

358. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ~ Winston Churchill

359. Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. - Elie Wiesel

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

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

362. “The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.” ~ William Shakespeare

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

364. "Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."— Victor Hugo

365. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. —Leonard Cohen.RD.COM

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

367. “Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.” -Thomas Aquinas

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

369. You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety. You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid, and many will court your favor. - Job 11:18-19

370. "I dwell in possibility."— Emily Dickinson

371. Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless. - G. K. Chesterton

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

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

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

375. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. - Romans 8:24-25

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

377. "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

378. Mother and son with hope and joy in their eyes.

379. "Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.” — Samuel Smiles

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

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

382. “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

383. Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. – Elie Wiesel

384. 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 DickensRD.COM

385. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. – Mahatma Gandhi

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

387. "To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful ‘magic skills’ that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition."— Elizabeth Gilbert

388. A woman wearing a head wrap looks toward the camera and smiles with hope.

389. “Hope and change are hard-fought things.” ~ Michelle Obama

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

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

392. The world hopes for the best, but Jesus Christ offers the best hope. - John Wesley White

393. “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.”

394. May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. – Nelson Mandela

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

396. "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"— Percy Bysshe Shelley

397. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius

398. Everything that is done in this world is done by hope. – Martin Luther

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

400. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope. - Stephen Hawking

401. “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

402. Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. - Hebrews 11:1

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

404. “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

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

406. "The darkest hours are just before dawn."— English Proverb

407. “He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.” ~ Thomas Carlyle

408. “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

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

410. “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

411. “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

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

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

414. “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

415. "The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope."— Samuel Johnson

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

417. Hope is the only tie which keeps the heart from breaking. - Thomas Fuller

418. “Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle

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

420. “Hope is the last thing ever lost.” ~ Italian Proverb

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

422. “Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.” ~ Robert Brault

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

424. Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. - Pliny the Elder

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

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

427. When hope animates us there is a vigour in the whole body. – John Calvin

428. "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

429. 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

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

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

432. "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

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

434. "We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.” — John Green

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

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

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

438. "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."— Audrey Hepburn

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

440. "All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope."— Alexandre Dumas

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

442. “Hope is the last thing ever lost.” —Italian proverb.

443. 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

444. "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

445. “He who has never hoped can never despair.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

446. Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have. - Ed Bradley

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

448. "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

449. Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. - Epictetus

450. “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

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

452. “Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.” ~ Robert G. Ingersoll

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454. "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

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

456. “Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.” -Louie Giglio

457. “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

458. “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

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

460. “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

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

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

463. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. - Bill Keane

464. “And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you. - Psalm 39:7

465. 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

466. “The Spirit of God first imparts love; he next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in many of our churches.” -Dwight L. Moody

467. Jesus gives us hope because He keeps us company, has a vision and knows the way we should go. -Max Lucado

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

469. If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. - Henry David Thoreau

470. "Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."— Robert H. Schuller

471. "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

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

473. “Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.” ~ E.B. White

474. "The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it."—J. M. Barrie

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

476. "I always entertain great hopes."— Robert Frost

477. I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again. – Anne Frank

478. Only in the darkness can you see the stars. - Martin Luther King Jr.

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

480. "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

481. 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

482. “Move on. Where there is a hope, there is a way.” ~ Invajy

483. “There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.” ~ Baruch Spinoza

484. 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 CoelhoRD.COM

485. In a time of destruction, create something. —Maxine Hong Kingston.RD.COM

486. “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 where they lead.” ~ Louisa May Alcott

487. “Don’t lose hope. You never know what tomorrow may bring. “ ~ Anonymous

488. All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. - Alexandre Dumas

489. There can be no hope without faith in Christ, for hope is rooted in him alone. Faith without hope would, by itself, be empty and futile. – Ernst Hoffmann

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

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

492. “Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.” ~ Samuel Johnson

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

494. "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

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

496. “H.O.P.E. – Hold On Pain Ends” ~ Anonymous

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

498. 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

499. As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. - Lao Tzu

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