Hope Quotes

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

~ Jonas Salk

Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics...they will only grow louder and more dissonant ........... We've been asked to pause for a reality check. 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

Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he'll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going.

~ Jodi Picoult

I’ve learned that no matter how inspired, fired up and motivated you might be, the dark clouds will always set in

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?

~ Alfred De Vigny

Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are fluttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your packAnd leave your friends and go.O never fear, lads, naught’s to dread,Look not left nor right: In all the endless road you treadThere’s nothing but the night.

~ A.e. Housman

I have found there to be little distance between the unlatching of a chain and the spreading of a woman’s legs. As if they can never unbar only a single entrance. It’s a disease called hope. Women suffer from it greatly.

~ Karen Marie Moning

Things doesn't always start out the way we want them to. It's how they end that's important.

~ T.m. Frazier

with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26).

~ Michele Woolley

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

~ Jane Austen

Hope means you keep on holding to things that won't ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there's nothing left.

~ Seanan Mcguire

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless, we must hope for everything.

~ Madeleine L'engle

For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.

~ Richelle Mead

What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?

~ Janet Fitch

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

~ Judy Collins

You can break a man with hope.

~ Kate Morgenroth

With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.

~ Robert M. Drake

Now I'm making a decision. I choose life. I shall live because there are few people I want to stay with for the longest possible time and because I have duties to discharge. It is not my concern whether or not life has meaning. If I am unable to forgive, then I shall try to forget. I shall live by force and cunning.­

~ Tayeb Saleh

I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.

~ Sharon Kay Penman

She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.

~ Robert M. Drake

Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.'- All my old loves will be returned to me

~ Carolyn Turgeon

I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r

~ John Green

A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?

~ Joyce Carol Oates

We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars -- glued together with magic and music and words.

~ Anita Krishan

A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles.

~ Anosh Irani

hope could betray you—but if you had no hope, life could actuallysurprise you in the best of ways.

~ Amy Lane

We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.

~ James E. Lovelock

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

~ Libba Bray

Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way

~ Ricky Maye

But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope,That one day we shall thank thee perfectlyFor pain and hope and all that led or droveUs back into the bosom of thy love.

~ George Macdonald

He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.

~ Aimee Bender

Your mother sets you up blind dates? With guys like that? The corners of his mouth twitched. She doesn't like you very much, does she?

~ Kelley Armstrong

Above all shadows rides the Sunand Stars for ever dwell:I will not say the Day is done,nor bid the Stars farewell.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

~ Rick Yancey

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything Dr.Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the secrets inside Sublevel Two.

~ Ally Carter

IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.

~ Nadia Sahari

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

~ Bryant Mcgill