“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”
Voltaire
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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.
“Despair is the sickness unto death.”
Soren Kierkegaard
DespairPhilosophy
“Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.”
Plutarch
PerseverancePatience
“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
Chinese Proverb
Small StepsPersistence
“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
HumanityFaith
“Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.”
Edmund Spenser
RestPeace
“That even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne
EndurancePoetry
“Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.”
William Cullen Bryant
TruthJustice
“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
The Bible (Romans 8:18)
SufferingGlory
“Time is a gentle deity.”
Sophocles
TimeHealing
“Time heals all wounds.”
English Proverb
HealingShort Quotes
“Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Life JourneyWit
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
PurposeResilience
“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
Charles Spurgeon
PerseveranceFunny
“Patience, faith, a friend and a spouse are truly tested only in times of trouble.”
Tulsidas
Hard TimesRelationships
“If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.”
Chinese Proverb
ResiliencePerseverance
“The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.”
Japanese Proverb
FlexibilityStrength
“Patience is the key to relief.”
Arabic Proverb
PatienceShort Quotes
“However long the night, the dawn will break.”
African Proverb
DawnHard Times
“Hope is the physician of each misery.”
Irish Proverb
HealingComfort
“Blessed are all they that wait for him.”
The Bible (Isaiah 30:18)
PatienceFaith
“This too is for the good.”
Nahum of Gamzu
TrustOptimism
“There is no evil that lasts a hundred years.”
Spanish Proverb
Hard TimesChange
“Knowing that the body is the target of sorrow, the great do not count sorrow as sorrow.”
Thiruvalluvar
ResilienceAcceptance
“Those who did not cling to their wealth when they had it will not grieve when it is lost.”
Thiruvalluvar
DetachmentLoss