Great hope quotes

As we fast approach the point of great hope becoming a glimmer of hope, a bit of research on inspirational quotes about life shows that hope has a long and storied past. For even the most jaded among us, the following 25 quotes should be reason enough in hope for tomorrow.

1 - “Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

2 - “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

3 - “We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.” - John F. Kennedy

4 - “Beware how you take away hope from any human being.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

5 - “Hope is a waking dream.” - Aristotle

6 - “We grow great by dreams... Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they [flourish]; bring them to the sunshine and light, which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.” - Woodrow Wilson

7 - "Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good." - Vaclav Havel

8 - “The very least you can do in your life is to 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

9 - “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.” - Albert Einstein

10 - “A leader is a dealer in hope.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

11 - “The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

12 - “We judge a man's wisdom by his hope.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

13 - “True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.” - William Shakespeare

14 - “Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.” - Robert Kennedy

15 - “I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.” - Thomas Jefferson

16 - “He that lives upon hope will die fasting.” - Benjamin Franklin

17 - “In all things it is better to hope than to despair.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18 - “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

19 - “Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

20 - "None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free." - Pearl Buck

21 - My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and the courage to accept the love in return.” - Maya Angelou

22 - “Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire; what led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation; what led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom's cause. Hope is what led me here today--with a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas; and a story that could only happen in the United States of America. Hope is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us; by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is; who have courage to remake the world as it should be.” - Barack Obama

Rounding out our 25 quotes are words on christian hope, lest we forget.

23 - "When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous have a refuge." ~Proverbs 14:32

24 - “Other men see only a hopeless end, but the Christian rejoices in an endless hope.” - Gilbert M. Beeken

25 - “But the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish.” - Psalms 9:18