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40 Quotes About Hope To Uplift Your Soul

List Of 40 Quotes About Hope To Uplift Your Soul:

#1 J.R.R. Tolkien

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

#2 Francis Bacon

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

#3 William Faulkner

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

#4 Barack Obama

“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.”

#5 John Lennon

“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.”

#6 Stephen King

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

#7 Patricia Cornwell

”Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.”

#8 Cecelia Ahern

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

#9 Roy T. Bennett

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

#10 Dalai Lama XIV

“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.”

#11 Nicholas Sparks

“It’s the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.”

#12 Yann Martel

“You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.”

#13 Thomas Carlyle

”A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.”

#14 Michelle Obama

”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.”

#15 John F. Kennedy

”Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”

#16 Neil Gaiman

”I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.”

#17 Abraham Lincoln

”All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

#18 Helen Keller

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

#19 Michael Jackson

“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.”

#20 Theodore Roosevelt

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

#21 Maya Angelou

”You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.”

#22 Marion Zimmer Bradley

“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.”

#23 Confucius

”It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

#24 G.K. Chesterton

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”

#25 Gerard Way

“There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.”

#26 Epicurus

“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.”

#27 Pittacus Lore

“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.”

#28 Edward S. Ame

”Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is a characteristic of all living beings.”

#29 Barbara Kingsolver

“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.”

#30 Martin Luther King Jr

”Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

#31 Tom Bodett

“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.”

#32 Sarah J. Maas

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

#33 Anne Frank

 “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.”

#34 Lemony Snicket

“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.”

#35 Paulo Coelho

“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.”

#36 Shel Silverstein

“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.”

#37 T.S. Eliot

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”

#38 Tahereh Mafi

 “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.”

#39 Bill Keane

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

#40 Marcus Tullius Cicero

”While there’s life, there’s hope.”

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References

http://www.johnlennon.com/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Lennon