Hope Quotes

These 29 quotes on hope come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. — Rumi
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
Rumi
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
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
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. — Desmond Tutu
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu
Hope is like a road in the land: there was no road to begin with, but when many people walk the same way, a road comes into being. — Lu Xun
Hope is like a road in the land: there was no road to begin with, but when many people walk the same way, a road comes into being.
Lu Xun
I hope the exit is joyful — and I hope never to return. — Frida Kahlo
I hope the exit is joyful — and I hope never to return.
Frida Kahlo
Give others confidence, give others joy, give others hope, give others convenience. — Hsing Yun
Give others confidence, give others joy, give others hope, give others convenience.
Hsing Yun
O God, if I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. — Rabia al-Adawiyya
O God, if I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise.
Rabia al-Adawiyya
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. — Václav Havel
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Václav Havel
We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. — Abraham Lincoln
We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle
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