Do you feel like you require something to boost your spirits? Whatever it is you’re struggling with these Encouraging Quotes remind us to suffer the roughest of beatings however, the most rewarding things happen through perseverance.
If you’ve had a disappointment in your quest for your dream or were turned down by someone you care about, suffered a loss, or just feel exhausted from the many ups and downs that come with the life journey Be aware that things can change within a matter of minutes.
All you need to remember is to persevere regardless of when you feel like it’s easier to lie down and abandon the effort.
Whatever you’re facing in life, these are positive quotes that may help you when you’re in need of it. A majority of these inspirational quotes come from people who have experienced remarkable success in their lives and like you have had their low points that seemed like nothing was possible. Don’t lose hope and get things moving forward today!
Encouragement Quotes
1. “It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.”~ Confucius
2. “The best revenge is massive success. “- Frank Sinatra
3. “It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.” ~Queen Elizabeth II
4. “A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.” ~ Albert Einstein
5. “This too shall pass.” – Persian Sufi Poets
6. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” ~ Albert Einstein
7. “When you get to your wits end, you will find, God lives there.”-Unknown
8. “The best revenge is massive success.” ~ Frank Sinatra
9. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ~Nelson Mandela
10. “In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”- Tony Robbins
11. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” ~ Audrey Hepburn
12. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.”- Japanese Proverb
13. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ~ Robert F. Kennedy
14. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” -Helen Keller
15. “There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.” -Amanda Gorman
16. “Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal.” – Jerome Fleishman
17. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”-Friedrich Nietzsche
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18. “When written in Chinese the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” -John F. Kennedy
19. “We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.” ~ Mary Dunbar
20. “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” ~ Rosa Parks
21. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” ~ Michael Jordan
21. “If I persist long enough I will win.” ~ Og Mandino
22. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” -Booker T. Washington
23. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ~ Lao Tzu
24. “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”~ George Bernard Shaw
25. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, and catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” ~ Mark Twain
26. “Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.” -Edwin Markham
27. “God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.” -Henry Beecher
28. “Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”-Rainer Rilke
29. “If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”-David Allen
30. “If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.”- Latin Proverb
31. “God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.”- John Aughey
32. “Never regret something that once made you smile.”- Amber Deckers
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33. “I scorched the earth with my talent and I let my light shine.” -André Leon Talley
34. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” ~ David Brinkley
35. “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” ~ Greg Anderson
36. “When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.” ~ Byron Katie
37. “You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” -A.A. Milne
38. “Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.” ~ Democritus
39. “It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.”- Oprah Winfrey
40. “Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”-Edmund Burke
41. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”-Richard Bach
42. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
43. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”- Henry David Thoreau
44. “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality in the mind next to honor.”-Aristotle
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45. “Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.”-H. Jackson Brown Jr.
46. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”-Franklin D Roosevelt
47. “When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.”-Les Brown
48. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”-Corrie Boom
49. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the
50. “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.”-Charles Swindoll
51. “He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.” – William James
52. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” ~ Kenji Miyazawa
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53. “Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.” ~ Bruce Barton
54. “Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie
55. “Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” ~ Aristotle
56. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” -Madeleine Albright
57. ”Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value.” ~Albert Einstein
58. “Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” ~ Napoleon Hill
59. “Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.” ~ Ralph Marston
60. “Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.” ~ M. Montgomery
61. “Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.” ~ Mario Fernandez
62. “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” ~ John Lennon
63. “Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.” ~ Alice Walker
64. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” ~ Will Rogers
65. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
Inspiring and Encouraging Quotes
66. “With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.” ~ Max Ehrmann
67. “Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
68. “You can’t rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and your those around you.” -Lupita Nyong’o
69. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” ~ Mark Caine
70. “A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that’s what separates a life story that can influence other people.“ ~ Mitch Albom
71. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ~ Nelson Mandela
72. “Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.” – Bruce Barton
73. “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” ~ Buckminster Fuller
74. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” ~ Wayne Dyer
75. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for extraordinary destiny.” ~ S. Lewis
76. “Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.” ~ Steve Martin
77. “Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” ~ Malala Yousafzai
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78. “You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.” ~ Joel Osteen
79. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”~ William James
80. “Never complain and never explain.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
81. “All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.” -Walt Disney
82. “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” ~ Buddha
83. “Be thankful for what you have and you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
84. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ~ Alice Walker
85. “Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
86. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” ~ Amelia Earhart
87. “Keep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself.” ~ Betsey Johnson
88. “I don’t go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.” -Loretta Lynn
89. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” ~ Dalai Lama
90. ”Either you run the day or the day runs you.” ~ Jim Rohn
Motivating and Encouraging Quotes
91. “Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.” ~ William Arthur Ward
92. “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” ~ Albert Einstein
93. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
94. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
95. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” ~ Og Mandino
96. “It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
97. “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” ~ Joseph Campbell
98. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu
99. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” ~ Thomas Paine
100. “The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.” ~ Bono
101. “Real Integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
102. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” ~ E. Cummings
Popular Encouragement Quotes
103. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” ~ John Wooden
104. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” ~ Stephen King
105. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley
106. “Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” ~ Sara Blakely
107. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
108. “When you notice that you’re having negative thoughts about how all of this is going to pan out, you need to remind yourself that you are not a very good fortune teller.” ~ Donna W. Hill
109. “Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
110. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
111. “I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
112. “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” ~ Christopher Reeve
113. “Something good comes out of every crisis.” ~ Dave Pelzer
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114. “I think the best way to have confidence is not to allow everyone else’s insecurities to be your own.” ~ Jessie J
115. “You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we’re all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it’s going to be over, and you better make this count.” ~ Nancy Reagan
116. “Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.”~ Anne Frank
117. “When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.” – Byron Katie
118. “Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to our eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.” ~ Brooke Foss Westcott
119. “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”~ Walter Bagehot
120. ”We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” ~ Maya Angelou
121. “When you get tired, learn to rest, not quit.” ~ Banksy
122. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ~ Helen Keller
123. “Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle.” ~ Jon Acuff
124. “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill
Quotes of Encouragement
125. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” ~ Harvey Fierstein
126. “There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” ~ Albert Einstein
127. “I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.” ~ Yaya DaCosta
128. “In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.” ~ Albert Einstein
129. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
130. “The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.” ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
131. “Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.” ~ Helen Keller
132. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ~ Jimmy Dean
133. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” ~ Helen Keller
134. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”~ Thomas A. Edison
135. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ~ Anne Frank
136. “Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” ~ Dale Carnegie
137. “Don’t think, just do.” ~ Horace
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138. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” ~ Babe Ruth
139. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” ~ Truman Capote
140. “A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.” – Albert Einstein
141. “Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” ~ Samuel Beckett
142. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” ~ Arthur Ashe
143. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
144. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
145. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson
146. “When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.” – Karen E. Quinones Miller
147. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
148. “Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.” – Alice Walker
149. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
150. “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” – John Lennon
151. “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
152. “The first step is you have to say that you can.” ~ Will Smith
153. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”~ Earl Nightingale
Encouraging Inspirational Quotes
154. “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” ~ Albert Einstein
155. “Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
156. “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.” ~ Charles R. Swindoll
157. “I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.” ~ Joseph Campbell
158. “How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
159. “Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure.” ~ Napoleon Hill
160. “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” – Mark Twain
161. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
162. “Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.” – Mario Fernandez
Positive Encouraging Quotes
163. “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality in the mind next to honor.”~ Aristotle
164. “True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.” ~John W. Gardner
165. “I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.” ~ George Burns
166. “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”~ Hans Christian Andersen
167. “Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” – Napoleon Hill
168. “The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” ~ Bertrand Russell
169. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” ~ Earl Nightingale
170. “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” ~ Dalai Lama
171. “Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.” – L.M. Montgomery
172. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. Life goes on.”~ Robert Frost
173. “I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.” – Henry Rollins
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