39 Hopeful Quotes

Hopeful Quotes For Difficult Times

Even when circumstances are difficult, hope can remind us that tomorrow may bring something better.

As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.
G.K. Chesterton

Look forward with a hopeful mind. Look forward! Resolve to leave the past behind.
Patience Strong, Look Forward

Thus when dark clouds obscure the way, for death we would not yearn, but hopeful wait for a fairer day, take sunshine and shadow in turn.
Lillian E Curtis, Sunshine and Shadow

I will be cheerful and hopeful. I will trust in God and bravely face the future.
Unknown, Creed Worth Believing

Yet in its midst, a glimmer of hope shines bright, action can transform the darkest night.
Catherine Pulsifer, Don't Let Sadness And Worry

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
Mary Anne Evans (pen name - George Eliot)

"Adieu!" speaks hopeful that we yet may meet and with each other hold communion sweet.
John Imrie, Adieu!

The hopeful person sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows, and storm clouds where others see only rain.
Zig Ziglar

Hope, Faith And A Positive Outlook

Our thoughts and faith can give us the courage to continue, one day at a time.

Never give up! there are chances and changes helping the hopeful a hundred to one
Martin Farquhar Tupper, Never Give Up!

When we are hopeful our dreams can come true, do a little bit every day just like the tiny acorn that grows into a beautiful tree it does not happen overnight, but a little bit each day.
Catherine Pulsifer

A hopeful heart is a heart that is anchored in the promise of God, and that can weather any storm with grace and courage.
Beth Moore

A person is the product of his thoughts. I want to be happy and hopeful. Therefore, I will have thoughts that are happy and hopeful. I refuse to be victimized by my circumstances.
Max Lucado

We can choose to dwell on being hopeless in situations or focus on having hope.
Shadonna Richards, A Gift of Hope

Have Hope. Though clouds environ round. And gladness hides her face in scorn. Put off the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.
Friedrich Von Schiller, Three Words Of Strength

Do not forget to rejoice, for hope is always just around the corner. Hold up through the hard times that are coming, and devote yourselves to prayer.
Romans 12:12 (VOICE)

New buds will open to the day when next the early morn awakes; so, though some bright things pass away, my heart some hopeful comfort takes.
J. H. Johnston

Forget yesterday, believe in today, hope for tomorrow
Peter Witt, Forget, Believe, Hope

Hope For Tomorrow And New Possibilities

Every new day holds possibilities. These quotations remind us to keep dreaming, learning, and encouraging others.

In each rising sun, a promise unfurled, a symphony of hope, to light up the world.
Catherine Pulsifer, A Morning Paint

Hopeful people are those who can look beyond their present circumstances to the promise of a better future.
Joel Osteen

heaven....so all may look with hopeful eyes above; 'tis beauty glory, joy, rest, peace, and love!
Unknown, What Is Heaven

And each of us has his golden goal stretching far into the years; and ever he climbs with a hopeful soul with alternate smiles and tears.
Edwin Carlile Litsey, The Dreams Ahead

For to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor
Robert Louis Stevenson, Travel Hopefully!

To the soul-despairing breathe a hopeful word; from your lips be only tones of kindness heard.
Unknown, Little Acts of Kindness

Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight...Christmas where children are hopeful and gay
Phillips Brooks, Christmas Everywhere

Hope, Resilience And Fresh Beginnings

Hope does not mean every day is easy. It helps us find the strength to try again and appreciate the good still around us.

Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear.
Monroe Forester

Resilience is....the hope that keeps us moving, even when the road seems long, and the courage to keep going, with a heart that stays strong.
Catherine Pulsifer, The Gift of Resilience

Oh glorious Easter Morn, where tears of sadness turn to hope reborn
Catherine Pulsifer, The Greatest Miracle

Find your hope, focus on the positive, read books about optimism. Change your thinking from one of a pessimistic view to one of a hopeful view!
Catherine Pulsifer

Let not disappointment fret you, if a seeming ill beset you, cast it off, and hopeful get you on your way
Unknown, Battle Every Day

I love the May because it seems to me so full of secrets and of whisperings...it is a gay, it is a hopeful time and this is why I love the month of May.
Eugene Field, May

May the morn of thy life be bright and joyous, the noontide peaceful and happy, and the sunset gloriously hopeful
J. S. Ogilvie, A Wish

Ah, bright resolve! How high you bear the future's hopeful standard on
Unknown, Turning Over The New Leaf

Sharing Hope With Others

A hopeful word or a thoughtful greeting may be just what someone needs. Let these quotations encourage you to pass that hope along.

Do those that I have greeted know a newborn hopefulness?
Strickland Gillilan

Keep hoping: the clouds hide the sun for a time, but sooner or later they scatter and flee
Eben S. Rexford, Workers And Winners

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.
Dalai Lama

Look hopefully up to the skies, for sunshine will come after rain.
John Imrie, Life's Brighter Side

Forget each worry and distress, be hopeful and forgiving
Priscilla Leonard, Forget - Remember

Do we take things in stride as each day appears? Do we patiently strive to keep hoping?
Greta Zwaan, How Does One Know?