“Hope to joy is little less in joy than hope enjoyed.”
William Shakespeare
JoyAnticipation
Hope Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · HOPE
Hope Quotes
Read the best hope quotes on optimism, courage and better days ahead from Goethe, Virgil, Milton, Burke, Bhartrihari, Lu Xun and more. Words to lift your spirits.
“I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.”
Aeschylus
ExileDreams
“Hope, danger's comforter.”
Thucydides
DangerComfort
“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”
Aristotle
YouthWisdom
“Sweet Hope, the nurse of old age, accompanies him and cheers his heart.”
Pindar
AgeingComfort
“The only safety for the conquered is to hope for no safety.”
Virgil
CourageDesperation
“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
PhilosophySceptical
“All the interests of my reason are united in three questions: What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?”
Immanuel Kant
PhilosophyQuestions
“We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.”
Aesop
WishesFables
“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.”
Chinese Proverb
ChangeOpportunity
“Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
Chinese Proverb
ProgressPatience
“After a storm comes a calm.”
English Proverb
Hard TimesPeace
“Tomorrow is another day.”
English Proverb
New BeginningsShort Quotes
“Tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed.”
The Bible (Romans 5:3-5)
PerseveranceFaith
“For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?”
The Bible (Romans 8:24)
FaithTrust
“And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.”
The Bible (Psalm 39:7)
PrayerTrust
“I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.”
The Bible (Psalm 130:5)
PatienceFaith
“And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope.”
The Bible (Job 11:18)
SecurityComfort
“Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
The Bible (Colossians 1:27)
FaithShort Quotes
“Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.”
The Bible (Psalm 31:24)
CourageStrength
“Putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.”
The Bible (1 Thessalonians 5:8)
FaithProtection
“Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy.”
The Bible (Psalm 33:18)
MercyFaith
“He that ploweth should plow in hope.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 9:10)
Hard WorkFaith
“That ye may know what is the hope of his calling.”
The Bible (Ephesians 1:18)
PurposeCalling
“The Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope.”
The Bible (1 Timothy 1:1)
FaithShort Quotes