Some days you just need extra help. Whether you’re fielding bad news or trying to pick up a friend’s mood, positive input can be necessary to adjust your outlook and make your day a bit brighter. This collection of hope quotes will inspire thoughtfulness and a more compassionate attitude, and can be used for a variety of crafts, like cards, posters, and banners, or for social media captions and graphics. Sit back and absorb some good feelings with these 60+ lines of hope, reflection, and considerate lived experience.

Inspirational quotes about hope

Feel the impact of hope from these quotes and let them carry you to a new path of inspiration and thoughtfulness towards your life and relationships.

• “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.” — Charles M. Schulz
• “Hope is a waking dream.” — Aristotle
• “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” — Brad Henry
• “We need hope, or else we cannot endure.” — Sarah J. Maas
• “When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.” — Theodore 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
• “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
• “To live without hope is to cease to live.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• “Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is a characteristic of all living beings.” — Edward S. Ame
• “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” — Winston Churchill
• “Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.” — Samuel Smiles
• “Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” — Jonas Salk
• “Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” — Robert Green Ingersoll
• “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.” — Emily Dickinson
• “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” — Desmond Tutu
• “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
• “There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” — Bernard Williams
• “Remember: hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” — Stephen King
• “A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.” — Howard Thurman
• “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” — Cormac McCarthy
• “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
• “Be faithful in small things, because it is in them that your strength lies.” — Mother Teresa
• “Hope is the last thing ever lost.” — Italian proverb
• “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen

Quotes about hope and love

Sometimes you can’t have hope without feeling love first. The intersection of these two powerful forces is illustrated in these quotes.

• “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
• “We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.” — Cassandra Clare
• “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
• “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” — Tom Bodett
• “The world 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
• “Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.” — Gustave Flaubert
• “We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.” — Amy Tan
• “I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” — Anne Frank
• “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
• “Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.” — Emanuel Cleaver
• “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
• “If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life.” — Haruki Murakami
• “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
• “Love without hope will not survive, love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and faith.” — Toba Beta

Hopeful quotes for the future

If the usual route to achieving your dreams isn’t working out, then read through these motivational and supportive quotes filled with hope for the future and have them inspire you instead!

• “The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is only light if we are brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.” — Amanda Gorman
• “There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” — Victor Hugo
• “In a time of destruction, create something.” — Maxine Hong Kingston
• “All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them.” — Magic Johnson
• “We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.” — Ed Markey
• “It’s the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.” — Frank Warren
• “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
• “Never give up. Have hope. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it.” — Catherine Pulsifer
• “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” — Helen Keller
• “Hope is the 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
• “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein
• “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
• “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
• “It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.” — John Guare
• “Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” — Robert H. Schuller
• “Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
• “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” — William Faulkner
• “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
• “Fear never builds the future, but hope does.” — Joe Biden
• “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
• “In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.” — Fritz Knapp
• “A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change.” — Jan Dargatz
• “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

Free Adobe Express templates with hopeful quotes

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