Hope Archives - Inspiring Quotes

Quotes About Hope

Let these hopeful quotes about the transformative power of optimism serve as a light in the dark and a reminder of the possibility of brighter days ahead.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.

I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.

Charles Dickens

There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments.

Wangari Maathai

There is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Get up quickly — just switch on the white light of the will.

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Mark Twain

Writer, humorist, and essayist (1835-1910)

Oscar Wilde

Irish poet and playwright (1854-1900)

Robert Frost

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (1874-1963)

Frida Kahlo

Mexican painter and self-portraitist (1907-1954)

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Humanitarian and former U.S. first lady (1884-1962)

Susan Sontag

Writer and cultural critic (1933-2004)

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Former U.S. first lady (1744-1818)

Abraham Verghese

Abstract painter (1912-2004)

Chinese artist and activist (1957-present)

French philosopher and author (1913-1960)

Poet, activist, and model (1998-present)

French American diarist and author (1903-1977)

Author (1963-present)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

French writer and aviator (1900-1944)

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Icelandic musician (1965-present)

Researcher and storyteller (1965-present)

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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and biographer (1878-1967)

Carrie Mae Weems

Photographer (1953-present)

Labor leader and civil rights activist (1927-1993)

Charles Dickens

English novelist (1812-1870)

Charles Kettering

Charlie Chaplin

Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker (1889-1977)

Charlotte Brontë

Author and poet (1816-1855)

Author (1968-present)

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Colson Whitehead

Chinese philosopher and teacher (c. 551-479 BCE)

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Spiritual leader of the Tibet (1935-present)

Actress and TV host (1975-present)

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Writer and children's book author (1899-1985)

Eleanor Roosevelt

Humanitarian and former U.S. first lady (1884-1962)

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Former president of Liberia (1938-present)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author (1896-1940)

Florence Nightingale

Writer (1883-1924)

Television host (1928-2003)

Frederick Douglass

Abolitionist and orator (1818-1895)

Mexican painter and self-portraitist (1907-1954)

Friedrich Nietzsche

German philosopher and cultural critic (1844–1900)

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George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright (1856-1950)

George Harrison

George Seaton Bowes

Author and reverend

Guy Gavriel Kay

Canadian fantasy author (1954-present)

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Australian comedian and writer (1978-present)

Haruki Murakami

Japanese writer (1949-present)

Author, educator, and activist (1880-1968)

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Iris van Herpen

Danish author (1885-1962)

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Buddhist teacher (1945-present)

Jawaharlal Nehru

Former prime minister of India (1889-1964)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Author (1966-present)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

John F. Kennedy

35th U.S. president (1917-1963)

Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (1902-1968)

Joseph Campbell

Author and professor (1904-1987)

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Lebanese American writer (1883-1931)

Karen E. Quinones Miller

Author and journalist (1958-present)

Kristen Roupenian

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Langston Hughes

Jazz poet and social activist (1901-1967)

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Canadian author (1874-1942)

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Madame de Staël

Madeleine L'Engle

Author (1918-2007)

Malala Yousafzai

Pakistani activist and Nobel Prize winner (1997-present)

Marcus Aurelius

Roman emperor (121-180 CE)

Marilynne Robinson

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (1943-present)

Writer, humorist, and essayist (1835-1910)

Marsha P. Johnson

LGBTQ+ activist (1945-1992)

Mary Tyler Moore

Actress and producer (1936-2017)

Mignon McLaughlin

Jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1926-1991)

Méret Oppenheim

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Native American proverb

Poet and activist (1943-present)

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TV host, producer, and actress (1954-present)

Irish poet and playwright (1854-1900)

Osip Mandelstam

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Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet (1904-1973)

Singer, songwriter, and poet (1946-present)

Brazilian author (1947-present)

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

English actress, writer, and producer (1985-present)

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Queen Elizabeth II

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Austrian poet and novelist (1875-1926)

Author (1920-2012)

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Robert Browning

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (1874-1963)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Ancient Roman philosopher (c. 4 BCE-65 CE)

Sharon Salzberg

Author and meditation pioneer (1952-present)

Stanley Kubrick

Stephen Hawking

English theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1942-2018)

Author of horror novels (1947-present)

Sue Stuart-Smith

Writer and cultural critic (1933-2004)

Poet and novelist (1932-1963)

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Theodore Roethke

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Science fiction author (1929-2018)

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Vincent van Gogh

Dutch postimpressionist painter (1853-1890)

Ancient Roman poet (c. 70-19 BCE)

English writer (1882-1941)

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Wangari Maathai

Kenyan activist (1940-2011)

William Faulkner

Nobel Prize-winning writer (1897-1962)

William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet (c. 1564-1616)

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Zora Neale Hurston

Writer and anthropologist (1891-1960)