Hope Quotes

Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.

~ Harley King

No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

~ Toni Morrison

Your tears are my prayers.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Their words of encouragement were just what I needed. I was doing a great job, and I appreciated their cheers.I felt a dormlike camaraderie in the burn unit, since each of us knew the challenges we were facing like no one else could, and therefore how meaningful each triumph was.

~ Stephanie Nielson

Your words like wings gravity they defy.My heart like a leaf on the wind catchin' rides.We make too much sense to foolishly pass it by.So I'm taking a rainbow up to the 5th floor.Steppin' out to see that you're really worth more.

~ Group 1 Crew

Never take today for granted, tomorrow might never come.

~ Matt Vella

Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.

~ John Milton

And hope is but a dream of those that wake.

~ Matthew Prior

Over time, I have come to believe that there is a killer and a saint in all of us. But...I choose to focus on the future and the *potential* in people.

~ Agnes Kamara-Umunna

I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too.

~ Stephanie Nielson

It isn’t true, is it, Daniel, that music can tame the beasts? Yet, in the end, a song lives.

~ Maria Àngels Anglada

The horizon was indistinguishable from the inky black, which fell upon the desert like a sorcerer’s mantle shot through with diamonds. The stars were so tiny, so far away, and yet, at the moment, with her fingers curled around his, he almost felt as though he could reach up and snag one by the tail.

~ V.s. Carnes

Hope comes not from the people around you, but from yourself.

~ Alegna G. Granados

No star is ever lost we once have seen,We always may be what we might have beenSince Good, though only thought,Has life and breath -God's life - can always be redeemed from death.And evil in its nature is decay,And any hour may blot it all away.The hope that lost in some far distance seems,May be the truer life, and this the dream.

~ Adelaide Anne Procter

...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

~ Margaret Atwood

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

~ Howard Zinn

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.

~ N.k. Jemisin

Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly, feeling now as clearly as a moment before he had felt the opposite, that what he had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or Elrond or Galadriel or Gandalf or anyone else knew about it was beside the purpose. He took his staff in one hand and the phial in his other. When he saw that the clear light was already welling through his fingers, he thrust it into his bosom and held it against his heart. Then turning from the city of Morgul, now no more than a grey glimmer across a dark gulf, he prepared to take the upward road.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want. This is the only thing I do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings. For me, each story is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other.

~ Charles De Lint

There is a period for hope and one for mourning.

~ Federico Chini

From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy

~ Carolyn Marsden

Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano.

~ Pablo Neruda

Whoso beset him roundWith dismal storiesDo but themselves confound,His strength the more is.

~ John Bunyan

Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.

~ Steve Chandler

Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan

~ Mary Balogh

They knew, though, she would not suffer as they had suffered. She was perfect. They were scarred.

~ Francesca Lia Block

Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.

~ Charles Bracelen Flood

No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.

~ Joanne Harris

Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart.

~ Dean Koontz

Love is hard. We try to love one another. But generally the quality and quantity of our love for one another is found wanting, because we find it difficult, if not impossible, to look beyond those things that are ugly and unlovable in those we try to love. Even though the things that are ugly and unlovable in ourselves are the very things that cause us to cry out for love.

~ Doug Worgul

There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which water the earth copiously, after which the sun shines brightly, as if freshly bathed, and floods with a golden luster the rocks, the river, the trees, and the entire jungle.

~ Henryk Sienkiewicz

We live in a time that hungers for HOPE; to believe in MIRACLES and DREAMS, for without these soul gems, humanity is ripped at the seams.

~ Debi Tibbles

Don't be such a party-pooper, missy --when you're well and truly screwed, either you just sit pissing yourself or you invent some reason to hope.

~ James Alan Gardner

An opportunity is a miracle waiting to happen.

~ Rue Allyn

You know, Molly, if you can hold in your mind what you want long enough, you shall have it.

~ Kent Allan Rees

Despair wishes their hope diminishes.

~ Sherina Gandia

[Koudelka] looked back, You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason![Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

~ Carol Ann Duffy

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

~ Criss Jami

We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement ...

~ Calvin Miller