“While we wait for life, life passes.”
Seneca
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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.
“If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it.”
Heraclitus
PossibilityOpen Mind
“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
GratitudeContentment
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
Chinese Proverb
New BeginningsAction
“'Let me light my lamp,' says the star, 'and never debate if it will help to remove the darkness.'”
Rabindranath Tagore
LightDoing Your Part
“Those who searched, found, diving into deep waters; I, the foolish one, sat on the shore, afraid of drowning.”
Kabir
CourageSeeking
“Like a bullock struggling on through each obstructed way, he who presses on will see his troubles troubled in their turn.”
Thiruvalluvar
PerseveranceStrength
“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
William Shakespeare
PatienceHealing
“The night is long that never finds the day.”
William Shakespeare
DarknessDawn
“I could think there trembled through his happy good-night air some blessed Hope, whereof he knew and I was unaware.”
Thomas Hardy
PoetryQuiet Hope
“The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Turning PointHard Times
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
Victor Hugo
CouragePeace
“For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.”
The Bible (Psalm 9:18)
JusticeComfort
“Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.”
The Bible (Psalm 16:9)
JoyRest
“Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.”
The Bible (Psalm 119:114)
ProtectionFaith
“The righteous hath hope in his death.”
The Bible (Proverbs 14:32)
EternityFaith
“To him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 9:4)
LifePerspective
“Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you.”
The Bible (1 Peter 3:15)
FaithWitness
“So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, and yet anon repairs his drooping head, and tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore flames in the forehead of the morning sky.”
John Milton
DawnRenewal
“Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness.”
The Bible (Psalm 112:4)
LightDarkness
“The darkness and the light are both alike to thee.”
The Bible (Psalm 139:12)
ComfortFaith
“This world of dew is a world of dew, and yet, and yet...”
Kobayashi Issa
GriefPoetry
“I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.”
The Bible (Genesis 9:13)
RainbowPromise
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
PatienceReward
“For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.”
The Bible (Psalm 18:28)
LightFaith