Short Encouraging Quotes
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD! – Psalm 31:24 (Bible Verse) Spiritual
“And you ask ‘What if I fall?’ Oh but my darling, what if you fly?” –Erin Hanson
“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.”
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’M POSSIBLE!’” – Audrey Hepburn
“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” – Dr. Henry Link
It’s a slow process, but quitting won’t speed it up.
“Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.” – Robert H. Schuller
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler
“Not every day is good but there is something good in every day.” – Alice Morse Earl
“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald
“I have standards I don’t plan on lowering for anybody, including myself.” – Zendaya
“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”- Edmund Burke
“Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyway.” – Glennon Doyle Melton
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”- Franklin D Roosevelt
Encouraging Quotes for Difficult Times
“Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.” – Rosa Parks
Yesterday is heavy. Put it down.
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“I’m going to make everything around me beautiful – that will be my life.” – Elsie de Wolfe
“Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.”- Charles Swindoll
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”- Richard Bach
“God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.”- John Aughey
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” – Demi Lovato
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
“Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” – Maya Angelou
“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”- Edwin Markham
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”- Corrie Boom
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller
Encouraging Quotes for the Workplace
“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss
“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” – Malala Yousafzai
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen
“By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” – Edwin Elliot
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”- Henry David Thoreau
“Inhale, exhale, it is well, it is well. All of this is a part of the story you will tell.” – Morgan Harper Nichols
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
“What is for you and meant for your good will surely come in it’s due time. Be true. Be patient. Be faithful.”
“I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect, they are much more interesting.” – Marc Jacobs
Encouraging Quotes for Friends Struggling
“When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.”- Les Brown
“Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you see can inspire you.” – Grace Coddington
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality in the mind next to honor.”- Aristotle
“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.” – Oprah Winfrey
“If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you haven’t spent a night with a mosquito.” – African Proverb
“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
“Always believe something wonderful is about to happen.”
“Light tomorrow with today!” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” — Jim Rohn
“Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.”
“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.” — Oprah Winfrey
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville
Encouraging Quotes for Life
“We all must pave our own path to success. No one else can do it for us.”
“I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.”
“There is no losing. There are only opportunities to learn and grow.”
“You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough.” — Fred Allen
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw
“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“Make your live a masterpiece; imagine no limitation on what you can be, have or do.” — Brain Tracy
“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.” – Carrie Fisher
“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
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” – Rick Warren
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss
“The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
“Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. ” – Dr. Seuss
“I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.” – Lady Gaga
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