100 Quotes to Stir Up Your Hope

I made it my pet project the other day, to dig out as many really cool quotes on HOPE as I could find for you.

The internet is virtual jackpot of site with quotes and thoughts on any subject you could imagine.

Oh the time you can waste… oh…I mean spend…

I was absolutely drowning in positive kudos!

I think I hit an all time high in twitter tweets for that day!  I do apologize if you were on the receiving end of the saturation.
But, there is just something about really catchy quotes that make you want to sticky note them EVERYWHERE!

But the best part of reading all the inspirational thoughts and quotes on hope was that afterwards, I felt like I could FLY!  My heart was encouraged to hope as I know yours will be too.

So  without further adieu…

From me to you…

To keep you from feeling  BLUUUUUE…..

100 REALLY COOL QUOTES ON HOPE

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.  ~Christopher Reeve
Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.  ~Vincent McNabb

When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
~Author Unknown (YES it DOES!)

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

Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all.  ~Emily Dickinson

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.  ~Anne Lamott

All it takes is one bloom of hope to make a spiritual garden.  ~Terri Guillemets

You’ve gotta have hope.  Without hope life is meaningless.  Without hope life is meaning less and less.  ~Author Unknown

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.  ~Mignon McLaughlin

Lord save us all from… a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.  ~Mark Twain

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.  ~George Iles

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it.  ~Mignon McLaughlin,

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.  ~Author Unknown
If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.  ~Eric Bentley
It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.  ~Robert Brault,
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.  ~Norman Cousins

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

Hope is necessary in every condition.  The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.  ~Samuel Johnson

Hope is the physician of each misery.  ~Irish Proverb

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.  ~Ouida

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.  ~Eric Hoffer

Hope is a path through a flowering meadow.  One doesn’t require that it lead anywhere. 
~Robert Brault,

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.  ~Matthew Prior

Hope is grief’s best music.  ~Author Unknown

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

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you’re slamming the door in the face of God.  ~Charles L. Allen (love that one!)

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.  ~George Weinberg

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.  ~Author Unknown

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.  ~Tertullian

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

Hope is the poor man’s bread.  ~Gary Herbert

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

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.  ~Robert Ingersoll
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ~Maya Angelou
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions:
1. What can I know?
2. What ought I to do?
3. What may I hope? ~Immanuel Kant
You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.~ Maya Angelou
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. ~Oscar Wilde
Hope springs eternal in the human breast. ~Alexander Pope
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
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.~ Helen Keller
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords. ~ Samuel Johnson
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.~ Bible
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. ~Norman Cousins
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.~William Sloane Coffin
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.~Vaclav Havel
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.~Robert F. Kennedy
The good life is not a problem-free life. In point of fact, the process of overcoming adversity often produces some of the most rewarding experiences we will ever have. Human beings need to be challenged to ‘test their mettle,’ as it were. Throwing in the towel at the first sign of trouble or small inkling of distress may be the easy thing to do, but it doesn’t help our self-concept. Most of life’s troubles can be overcome if we are willing to work through them with patience.
~ Michael A. Schuler
Reasoning is a robust source of hope in a world darkened by murky deeds.~Amartya Sen
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!~ Louise Bogan
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy  ~ Francis of Assisi
Hope is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us; by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is; who have courage to remake the world as it should be. ~Barack Obama
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
~Erik H. Erikson
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. ~Elizabeth Gilbert
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
Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
~Don Quixote
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
We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. ~Barack Obama

Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything. ~Thomas Merton  (this has become my mission statement for this blog!)

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge — myth is more potent than history — dreams are more powerful than facts — hope always triumphs over experience — laughter is the cure for grief — love is stronger than death. ~Robert Fulghum
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 (my favorite yet!)

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.~Samuel Johnson
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
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
~ Dorothy Thompson
If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family’s story embodies its hope and despair. ~Auguste Napier
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn! ~ Kalidasa
I still believe in Hope – mostly because there’s no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.
~Molly Ivins   (Made me laugh)

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

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
~Rita Mae Brown
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.
Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness. ~Reinhold Niebuhr
Repentance is another name for aspiration.~ Henry Ward Beecher
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. ~Thomas Jefferson
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
~Jane Wagner  (ouch)

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. ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.~ Allan K. Chalmers
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
May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.~ Author Unknown
Love comes to those who still hope even though they’ve been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they’ve been betrayed, to those who still love even though they’ve been hurt before. ~ Author Unknown

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.~ Oscar Wilde

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. ~ Albert Einstein

In all things it is better to hope than to despair ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself… ‘How did I get through all of that?”~ Author Unknown

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.~ French Proverb quote

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
~ Author Unknown

Hope never abandons you; you abandon it~ George Weinberg
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope ~ Hal Lindsey

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.~ Author Unknown

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What a comfort to know that hope is an ageless hunger that so many before us have felt and filled and written about so now we can have hope.

Was there one that really encouraged you?

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Maybe you have a favorite that you didn’t see on the hope quotes.
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But thats not the end!

I told you… I found an endless supply of thoughts and quotes on hope.

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