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As Emily Dickinson once said - hope is the thing with feathers. A strong-willed bird that lives inside every one of us. It doesn’t cease its song no matter gales or storms, good times or bad. Without a thread of hope, everything would be lost, as hope is the foundation of the human condition. What would happen to us without it? While sure as the day, the world is full of peril, the light will always find its way through the cracks! And if you feel low on your resources of hope, these inspiring quotes might be just the thing you need. 

These hope quotes come from only the most talented and world-renowned writers, historical figures, and philosophers. At various stages of their life, many of them had only hope to get them through, so their words aren’t just theoretical but rather motivating quotes that come from real experience. A tried and tested way to help you find that grain of goodness! Especially now, when all humanity seems to be losing it faster and faster. And while you might think that these intelligent quotes are just words, remember that a pen is mightier than a sword, and precisely with words, all the good changes happen. 

So, just a slither down below, you’ll find our collection of the most beautiful quotes about hope, dreams, and holding on to a belief that there’s always a silver lining, no matter how impossible the task at hand seems. Once you are there, vote for the deep quotes that have stirred something inside you and share this uplifting article with anyone in need.

#1

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen

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

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“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” — Nelson Mandela

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138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “Hope is the last thing ever lost.” — Italian proverb

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“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

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#6

“We need hope, or else we cannot endure.” — Sarah J. Maas

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“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“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.” — Anne Frank

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138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “In a time of destruction, create something.” — Maxine Hong Kingston

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#10

“To live without hope is to cease to live.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#11

“As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by.” — Lao Tzu

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#12

“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.” — John Lennon

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#13

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year "Hope is a passion for the possible." — Søren Kierkegaard

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“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein

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“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.” — Shel Silverstein

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#17

“Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” — Stephen King

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#18

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “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

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#19

“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

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#20

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” — Harriet Tubman

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#21

“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

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138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “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

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#23

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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#24

“Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do.” — Pope John XXIII

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#25

“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.” — Jane Austen

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#26

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

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#27

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

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#28

“Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.” — Barack Obama

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#29

“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.” — Lemony Snicket

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#30

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.” — Albert Einstein

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#31

“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

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#32

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” – Winston Churchill

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#33

“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” – Romans 15:13

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#34

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” – Bernard Williams

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#35

“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” – Robert Green Ingersoll

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#36

“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything.” – Thomas Carlyle

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#37

“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.” – William Shakespeare

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#38

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” — Roy T. Bennett

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#39

“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

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#40

“No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.” — Lupita Nyong’o

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#41

“The darkest hours are just before dawn.” — English Proverb

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#42

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “A person can do incredible things if he or she has enough hope.” — Shannon K. Butcher

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#43

“Hope is the ocean for the river, the sun for trees and the sky for us.” — Maxime Lagacé

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#44

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.” — Alexandre Dumas

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#45

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” — Mark Twain

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#46

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” — Robert Fulghum

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138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them.” — Flannery O’Connor

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#48

“Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.” — Thomas Fuller

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#49

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle

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#50

“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.” — Nelson Mandela

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#51

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” —Desmond Tutu

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#52

“The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.” — National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman

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#53

“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

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#54

“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.” — Paulo Coelho

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“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.” — Barbara Kingsolver

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#56

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “Never give up. Have hope. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it.” — Catherine Pulsifer

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#57

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” — Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

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#58

“The world needs less heat and more light. It needs less of the heat of anger, revenge, retaliation, and more of the light of ideas, faith, courage, aspiration, joy, love and hope.” — Wilfred Peterson

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#59

“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.” — Amy Tan

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138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.” — Fritz Knapp

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#61

“Hope is a waking dream.” — Aristotle

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#62

“A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change.” — Jan Dargatz

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#63

“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” – Brad Henry

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138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” – Jonas Salk

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#65

“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” – Nelson Mandela

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#66

”In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.” – Fritz Knapp

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#67

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

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#68

“All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.” – Magic Johnson

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#69

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” – Robert H. Schuller

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#70

“I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.” – Arthur Miller

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#71

“Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.” – Emanuel Cleaver

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#72

“Time is no longer endless or the horizon destitute of hope.” – Charles Lindbergh

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#73

“A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don’t have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perseverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.” – Robert Kraft

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138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “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

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#75

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them.” — Louisa May Alcott

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#76

“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

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#77

“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.” — G.K. Chesterton

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138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.” — Lin Yutang

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#79

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

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#80

“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.” — Thomas Carlyle

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#81

“Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process.” — Brené Brown

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#82

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “Keep your best wishes close to your heart and watch what happens.” — Tony DeLiso

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“Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.” — Dorothy Thompson

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#84

“Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.” — George Weinberg

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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” — Anatole France

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#86

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “When you stop hoping you start settling.” — Valorie Burton

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“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

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#88

“I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.” — Will Smith

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#89

“There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.” — C. S. Lewis

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“We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.” — John Calvin

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138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” — Helen Keller

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#92

“Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. Hope without critical thinking is naïveté.” — Maria Popova

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#93

“While there’s life, there’s hope.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#94

“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” — E. Joseph Cossman

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#95

“If one advances confidently in the direction of one’s dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau

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138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “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.” — Marion Zimmer Bradley

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#97

“Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.” — John Wayne

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“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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#99

“Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is a characteristic of all living beings.” — Edward S. Ame

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138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.” — John Guare

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#101

“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

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#102

“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

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#103

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou

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#104

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “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

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#105

“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.” – Gustave Flaubert

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#106

“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.” – Stephen Ambrose

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#107

“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

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#108

“You are not here merely to make a living, you are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” – Woodrow Wilson

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#109

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.” – Ed Markey

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#110

“Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.” – Samuel Smiles

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#111

“A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.” – Charles M. Schulz

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#112

“Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.” – Tena Desae

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#113

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “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

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#114

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda

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#115

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis

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#116

“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

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#117

“This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#118

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.” — O. S. Marden

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#119

“Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.” — E.B. White

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#120

“Hope is a​n embrace of the unknown​.” — Rebecca Solnit

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#121

“Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.” — William Sloane Coffin

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“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

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138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope.” — Manel Loureiro

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#124

“Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.” — Tom Head

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#125

“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 Spurgeon

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#126

“I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.” — Joel Osteen

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#127

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.” — Samuel Johnson

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#128

“When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you’ll finally see the truth — that hero lies in you.” — Mariah Carey

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#129

“What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.” — George Eliot

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#130

“To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful ‘magic skills’ that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

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#131

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.” — Howard Thurman

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#132

“What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.” — Emil Brunner

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#133

"Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower." — Shigenori Kameoka

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#134

“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” — Anne Frank

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#135

138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “I always entertain great hopes.” — Robert Frost

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#136

“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” — Martin Luther

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#137

“Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.” — Lillian Hellman

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138 Hope Quotes To Get You Through This Year “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” — Christopher Reeve

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