Sometimes positive thinking is half the battle, so for when you are looking to encourage, we have put together a list of all the best hope quotes and messages for your next post. And if you’re looking for hope captions for Instagram, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Short Quotes About Hope
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen
“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” — Bernard Williams
“Fear never builds the future, but hope does.” — Joe Biden
“Hope is a waking dream.” — Aristotle
“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” — Robert Green Ingersoll
“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” — Robert H. Schuller
“All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them.” — Magic Johnson
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” — Desmond Tutu
“It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.” — John Guare
“When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” — Cormac McCarthy
“Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.” — Emanuel Cleaver
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” — Victor Hugo
“In a time of destruction, create something.” — Maxine Hong Kingston
“Hope is the last thing ever lost.” — Italian proverb
“We need hope, or else we cannot endure.” — Sarah J. Maas
“A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.” — Charles M. Schulz
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” — Anne Frank
“We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.” — Ed Markey
“It’s the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.” — Frank Warren
“To live without hope is to cease to live.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Positive Hopeful Quotes
“Be faithful in small things, because it is in them that your strength lies.” — Mother Teresa
“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
“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.” — Amy Tan
“In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.” — Fritz Knapp
“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
“A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.” — Howard Thurman
“Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.” — Samuel Smiles
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
“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
“Never give up. Have hope. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it.” — Catherine Pulsifer
“Hope is outreaching desire with expectancy of good. It is a characteristic of all living beings.” — Edward S. Ame
“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
“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
“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” — Brad Henry
“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
“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
“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.” — Cassandra Clare
“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
“The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is only light if we are brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.” — Amanda Gorman
“Love without hope will not survive, love without faith changes nothing. Love gives power to hope and faith.” — Toba Beta
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” — William Faulkner
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” — Helen Keller
“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
“A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change.” — Jan Dargatz
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” — Albert Einstein
“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” — Jonas Salk
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life.” — Haruki Murakami
“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.” — Gustave Flaubert
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
“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
“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
“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
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” — Winston Churchill
“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
“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
“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Hope is the 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
“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
“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
“The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it is just the full dimensionality of your own capacity to feel that returns.” — Susan Griffin
“Remember: hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” — Stephen King
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Encouraging Messages About Staying Hopeful
“Nothing’s forever in this world, and that’s why we have every reason to be hopeful.”
“Hope is one thing that can help us get through the darkest times.”
“No matter what has happened in your life, the future is better than what happened in the past; the future is better than the present; it will always be.”
“If you can’t control what’s happening to you, control how you respond. That’s where your power is.”
“Take a deep breath. Everything will be okay in the end. And if it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”
“Don’t ever lose hope. When the sun goes down, the stars come out.”
“Have Hope. Hold on. Pain ends.”
“Ever tried and ever failed? Try again, fail again, and fail better. The world is yours.”
“You may be tried and fed up, but there’s strength within you, even if you don’t see it now. So Keep fighting.”
“Yesterday is gone. Forget and never mention it. Tomorrow is not here, that which has not come, that which is yet to come. Be happy now, and don’t waste your life.”
“Hope is understanding that nothing’s permanent, not even the troubles that scar you. One of the best moments in your life will be when you finally have the courage to let go of the things you can’t change. Because life is too short to spend another day at war with yourself.”
“When you give up, that’s when your doors close; for as long as you haven’t given up, your doors will never close.”
“Everything will turn out okay, even if it feels hard right now. Hold onto hope; hold onto yourself. Whatever you’re going through will not stay, but you will.”
“In all things, it’s better to hope than to despair.”
“When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world!”
“Never stress about what you can’t control.”
“Whenever you feel like losing hope, ask yourself this: what if everything I’m going through now is preparing me for what I asked for?”
“Hope is important; it can make the present moment more bearable. If you have hope that tomorrow will be better, you can get through the difficult moments of today.”
“Tell yourself every day this: no matter how hard it is, no matter how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.”
“As long as you feel the pain, you’re still alive. And as long as you keep trying, there is still hope.”
“Never forget all the times you have pushed even when you felt you couldn’t. All the mornings you got out of bed no matter how hard it was. All the times, you wanted to give up but didn’t. Never forget how much strength you’ve gained along the way.”
“The real reason you feel hopeless now is not because of your situation—it’s your reaction to it. Change your thoughts. Change your life.”
Hope Captions
With hope in your heart, anything is possible.
Hope: the secret ingredient to my funny bone.
Let hope light your path.
Keep hope alive.
Keep calm and hope on!
Hope shines brightest in the darkest moments.
Hugs, kisses, and endless hope.
Hope doesn’t need a punchline; it’s already funny.
Sending you a cup of hope and a jar of smiles.
Hope is a powerful force.
Hopeful always.
Love, hope, and a whole lot of cuteness.
Did someone say hope? I’m all ears!
Hope is the light that never fades away.
Hope is my furry friend for life.
Choose hope, not fear.
Hope is my daily dose of happiness.
Every day is a new chance for hope. Embrace it!
A little hope goes a long way.
Let hope be your guiding star in the darkest nights.
Believe in the beauty of your dreams. #Hopeful
Hope is the spark that ignites change.
May your day be filled with puppy kisses and hope.
Laughter + Hope = Perfection
Hope: the best cure for a bad day.
In every storm, there is a glimmer of hope.
P0sitive vibes and hopeful thoughts.
You’re my sunshine and hope all rolled into one.
Embrace hope and chase your dreams.
Hope is the anchor that keeps us grounded.
When hope blooms, miracles happen.
Dare to hope, even when everything seems impossible.
Stay hopeful, even in the hardest times.
Cuteness overload with a sprinkle of hope!
Live, love, and hope. The cuteness will follow.
Hope looks adorable on you!
Hope is the heartbeat of our souls.
Hope is my superhero cape.
When in doubt, hope it out!
Who needs a crystal ball when you have hope?
So that is it for our list of Hope Quotes and Messages. We hope you found the perfect one!
About the Author
Laynni Locke
I am Laynni Locke, a Canadian writer, reader and traveller with a passion for sharing life’s moments on social media. Keeping friends and family in the loop of our lives though photos and videos has become an essential activity for most.
And it doesn’t matter if you are travelling, celebrating a special occasion or just appreciating day-to-day life, when you take that perfect photo you are going to need the perfect caption or quote before you share it. Which is why we started Routinely Shares, providing comprehensive lists of quotes and captions to cover every occasion, adventure or loved one.
With extensive experience as a travel writer, social media specialist and grant writer, I have made it my mission to curate the best and easiest to use lists for your next post.