Check out the best “don’t lose hope quotes”.
Emotions… they are what make us human beings. And the human brain is a complex system, more complex than any other structure in this vast universe. They generate emotions… happiness, grief, anger, fear, and the list goes on.
Our life is full of emotions. Every minute, every second of our life, our choices are driven by these emotions. And hope is one of them.
We all need hope in our life. It might be for a silly little thing or something life-changing. Whether it’s hoping your favorite ice cream flavor is not out of stock, hoping your friend’s alright or hoping you chose the right career… Hope is everywhere.
Life’s hard and quite unfair. It’s not going to be all rays of sunshine and roses. And there will be times when we fall deep into a pit of darkness, where everything troubles us. But to move on from that temporary hold, you must have two emotions…Hope and faith.
And at times, when you feel like hope’s slithering out of your mind, it might be just words you need to grab hold of. After all, words are weapons…
So, here’s a collection of famous hope quotes for times when you feel hopeless and need something to get you going.
Famous hope quotes by great personalities
1.”We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
2. “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.” –Barack Obama
3. “Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
4. “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” –Winston Churchill
5. “Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
6. “When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you’ll finally see the truth—that a hero lies in you,” – Mariah Carey
7. “Hope is a waking dream.” –Aristotle
8. “Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” – Jonas Salk
9. “Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.” – Martin Luther King Jr
10. “Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.” -Ruckett
11. “He who has never hoped can never despair.” – George Bernard Shaw
12. “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.”-Michelle Obama
13. “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
14. “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.” –Epicurus
15. “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.” – Francis Bacon
16. “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.” –Mahatma Gandhi”
17. “Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” – Robert H. Schuller
18. “However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there’s life, there’s hope.” –Stephen Hawking
19. “Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.” – Thomas Fuller
20. Hope itself is like a star – not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
21. “When you stop hoping, you are on the vestibule of hell, for there is no hope there.” – A. J. Cronin
22. “Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.” — Brother Lawrence
23. “For every dark night there’s a brighter day.” – Tupac Shakur
24. “If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford
25. “Walk on with hope in your heart, and you’ll never walk alone.” – Shah Rukh Khan
26. “If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps 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.
27. “When our men lose their hope of a future and purpose, you’ll surely watch them die a slow death in front of you.” – Nan Jones”
28. “Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don’t. You are in good company… You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.” — John Piper
29. “Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.” – Epictetus
30. “Whatever it is you’re doing out there, don’t lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I’m proof.” – Carl Edwards
31. “Learn to ask even when you feel weak. Learn to work even if you don’t want to. Learn to hope even when the odds are against you.” — Maxime Lagacé
32. “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.” – Dalai Lama XIV
33. “We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
34. 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.” – Michael Jackson
Famous hope quotes by great authors
35. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” –Helen Keller
36. ”It’s always something, to know you’ve done the most you could. But, don’t leave off hoping, or it’s of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last.” –Charles Dickens
37. “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. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.” –Anne Lamott
38. “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.” –Tom Bodett
39. “Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” – Roy T. Bennett
40. “Do not lose hope, please believe that there are a thousand beautiful things waiting for you. Sunshine comes to all who feel the rain.” – R.M. Drake
41. “Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.” – Laini Taylor
42. “We need hope, or else we cannot endure.” – Sarah J. Maas
43. “Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
44. “Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.” – Barbara Kingsolver
45. “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.” – Pittacus Lore
46. “Hope?’ he says. ‘There is always hope, John. New developments have yet to present themselves. Not all the information is in. No. Don’t give up hope just yet. It’s the last thing to go. 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.” – Pittacus Lore
47. “Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” – G.K. Chesterton
48. “Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, ‘Wait and Hope.” – Alexandre Dumas
49. “We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.” – John Green
50. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.” – Emily Dickinson
51. “To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect” -Jane Austen
52. “A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.” — Howard Thurman
53. “Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” – Stephen King
54. “Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.” – E.B White
55. “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
56. “A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change.” – Jan Dargatz
57. “Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” – Steve Maraboli
58. “No matter the number of times you fail you must be determined to succeed. You must not lose hope. Don’t stop in your storm. Don’t give up so easily.” – Tony Narams
59. “Never give up. Have hope. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it.” – Catherine Pulsifer
60. “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
61. “Where no hope is left, is left no fear.” – John Milton
62. “There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.” — O. S. Marden
63. “The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.” – Miguel de Cervantes
64. “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
65. “Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” – Stephen King
66. “All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.” – Alexandre Dumas
67. “In an age of hope, men looked up at the night sky and saw ‘the heavens.’ In an age of hopelessness, they call it simply ‘space.’” – Peter Kreeft
68. Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” – Helen Keller
Movie quotes on don’t lose hope
69. “There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.” – Eddie Redmayne in The theory of everything
70. “The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow! Into the light of hope, into the future!” – Sir Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator
71. “What’s the good of living without hope” – Betty Grable in I Wake Up Screaming
72. “Beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it is the middle that counts the most. You need to remember that when you find yourself at the beginning. Just give hope a chance to float up.” – Sandra Bullock in Hope Floats
73. “Hope guides me. It is what gets me through the day and especially the night. The hope that after you’re gone from my sight it will not be the last time I look upon you.” – Laura Fraser in A Knight’s Tale
74. “I know you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living.” – Harvey Milk in Milk
75. “Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it’s contained.” – President Snow in The Hunger Games
76. “Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.” – The Architect in The Matrix Reloaded
77. “Hope is like the sun. If you only believe it when you see it you’ll never make it through the night.” – Leia Organa in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
78. “You don’t lose hope, love. If you lose hope, you lose everything.” – Mrs. Potts in The Beauty and the Beast
Anonymous hope quotes
79. “Birds of hope are everywhere, listen to them sing.”
80. “Hope is the dream of a soul awake.”
81. “Don’t lose hope. You never know what tomorrow will bring.”
82. “Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life.”
83. “For as long there’s dream, there’s hope. For as long there’s hope, there is joy in living.”
84. “Hope is one thing that can help us get through the darkest of times”
85. “Don’t lose hope. When you’re up to nothing, god’s upto something.”
86. “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”
87. “Just because something isn’t happening for you now, doesn’t mean it will never happen. Don’t lose hope.”
88. “Don’t lose hope. When the sun goes down, the stars come up.’
89. “When the world says to give up, hope whispers ‘Try it one more time.'”
90. “Hold on to your hopes strongly…The sun is still shining behind the clouds.”
It’s all about hope, folks! If you ever feel hopeless or gloomy, open this up and look at all these beautiful words by these wonderful people. It might surprise you how much they affect you. And who knows? Maybe you’ll get hyped up and do something incredible!
And we’ll be here, hoping you did exactly that.
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