Having Hope Quotes

• If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Faith, Hope, Future

  "Cousteau country: scuba diving in Papua New Guinea" by Kevin Rushby, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2017.

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  Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hope, Light, Darkness

  "The Priest". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. March 4, 2010.

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• Once you choose hope, anything's possible

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting

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• Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Hope, Nature

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4655, Library of Alexandria

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• If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

  Nhat Hanh

  Uplifting, Hope, Believe

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• Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Hope, Stars

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• 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.

  Nhat Hanh

  Positive, Uplifting, Hope

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• Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Hope, Spring, Rain

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• 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, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Night, Clouds, Hopeful

  "Hope, Faith, and Love". Poem by Friedrich Schiller (circa 1786), as translated in "The Common School Journal", Volume IX, edited by Horace Mann (p. 38), 1847.

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• Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Cute, Positive, Leadership

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, New Year, Hope

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  He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Fitness, Hope

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• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• 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.

  Inspiring, Moving On, Dream

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “The trumpet of conscience”, Harpercollins

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• 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

  Inspiring, Hope, Giving Up

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.23, Anchor

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• Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

  Victor Hugo

  Hope, Wisdom, Men

  "Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)".

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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• Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It 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

  Inspiring, Dream, Hope

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

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• Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Break Up, Hope, Courage

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Faith

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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