Hope Quotes

We could all use great quotes, at one time or another... they lift our spirits and make our hearts sing. Here is a collection of hope quotes, that are truly quotes to live by. When life isn't so peachy, inspirational life quotes can work wonders.

Let your heart sink into this collection as you discover more deeply that hope springs eternal.

"Hope in God and wait expectantly for him, for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God." -- Psalm 42:11

"Be strong and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for and hope for and expect the Lord!" -- Psalm 31:24

"For thou art my hope, O Lord God; thou art my trust from my youth." -- Psalm 71:5

"Yet You are He Who took me out of the womb; You made me hope and trust when I was on my mother's breast." -- Psalm 22:9

"Wait and hope for and expect the Lord; be brave and of good courage and let your heart be stout and enduring. Yes, wait for and hope for and expect the Lord." -- Psalm 27:14

"Behold, the Lord's eye is upon those who fear Him [who revere and worship Him with awe], who wait for Him and hope in His mercy and loving-kindness." -- Psalm 33:18

"Let Your mercy and loving-kindness, O Lord, be upon us, in proportion to our waiting and hoping for You." -- Psalm 33:22

"And now, Lord, what do I wait for and expect? My hope and expectation are in You." -- Psalm 39:7

"Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, my Help and my God." -- Psalm 42:5

"Happy (blessed, fortunate, enviable) is he who has the God of [special revelation to] Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God." -- Psalm 146:5

"Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth; my flesh also shall rest in hope." -- Psalm 38:15

"You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in Your word." -- Psalm 119:114

"Uphold me according to Your promise, that I may live; and let me not be put to shame in my hope!" -- Psalm 119:116

"And thou shalt be secure because there is hope." -- Job 11:18

"Which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." -- Colossians 1:27

"Through Him you believe in (adhere to, rely on) God, Who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him honor and glory, so that your faith and hope are [centered and rest] in God." -- 1 Peter 1:21

"And everyone who has this hope [resting] on Him cleanses (purifies) himself just as He is pure (chaste, undefiled, guiltless)." -- 1 John 3:3

"Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is." -- Jeremiah 17:7

"May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in believing that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound and be overflowing with hope." -- Romans 15:13

"Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." -- Titus 2:13

"Moreover, let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance. And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and tried integrity). And character [of this sort] produces [the habit of] joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation. Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us." -- Romans 5:3-5

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all and sweetest in the gale is heard." -- Emily Dickinson

"Lord, when all around me looks dark, remind me the bridge of hope will carry me over the present troubles, into the future You have promised. Amen." -- Prayer from the book Light For My Path

"The future is full of doubt, indeed, but fuller still of hope." -- John Lubbock

"Hope is good; it is better than despair, but it is a subtle illusion and is an unconscious compromise..." -- Ernest Holmes

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return." -- Maya Angelou

"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."

"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

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

"Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will." -- Josh Hartnett

"In all things it is better to hope than to despair." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have." -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"...when hope dies in a leader, the game ends and the cause is defeated." -- Bill Hybels

"Continue to hope, for your good is right in front of you. Hope is the light which beckons a new day. Hold on to hope."

"Where there is hope, there is life, where there is life, there is possibility. And where there is possibility, change can occur." -- Jesse Jackson

"Keep hope alive!" -- Jesse Jackson

"Hope is a song in a weary heart." -- Pauli Murray

"Our lives, hopes, and dreams depend on our ability to be heard." -- James Bernard

"Hope is the dream of the waking man." -- Aristotle

"The miserable have no other medicine. But only hope." -- Wiliam Shakespeare

"Hope: disappointment deferred." -- Anonymous

"Second marriage: The triumph of hope over experience." -- Samuel Johnson

"Where there is life, there is hope." -- The Talmud

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come." -- Syndney Smith

"Hope 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

"When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens." -- Anne Lamott

"Hope is patience with the lamp lit." -- Tertullian

"In times of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone." -- Hafiz

"Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating." -- Honore de Balzac

"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." -- Martin Luther

"It is, above all, by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope." -- Ursula K. Le Guin

"Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future." -- Emil Brunner

"We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes." -- John F. Kennedy

"Between Hope and Fear, Love makes her home." -- Ramon Lully

"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings." -- Elie Wiesel

"True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes Gods, and meaner creatures Kings." -- William Shakespeare

"If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage." -- Kathrine Switzer

"Hope is like a road in the country; there never was a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence." -- Lin Yutang

"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."

"Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire; what led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation; what led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom's cause. Hope is what led me here today -- with a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas; and a story that could only happen in the United States of America. 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."

"America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crises. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before."

"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."

"While we breathe, we will hope."

To round off this tasty selection of hope quotes, I'm including one of my favorites from the Champ himself, Muhammad Ali:

"What there is, is Glory. A prize that comes only at the end of the day. For only the true hero can say, 'I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord'."

Amen.

I pray this collection of hope quotes and inspirational quotes on life will inspire you to keep your eyes lifted, especially when the storms of life are raging all around you. Remember to keep hope alive!

Namaste