Encouraging Quotes and Sayings
Encouraging quotes can help you get through a rough patch.
Some days can be a battle for folks. Things can be anything from a little difficult to the grave. In such moments, words of encouragement can mean a lot to your loved ones and friends.
Some of the greatest men and women have used inspiring words to comfort and aid friends and relatives in times of hardship.
Here are some lovely, encouraging quotes from great people who have made the world better.
Encouraging Quotes
1.) The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney — See Wit and Wisdom of Walt Disney.
2.) Don’t let the muggles get you down.
J.K. Rowling
3.) Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill
4.) The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
5.) There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Aristotle
6.) There are moments when troubles enter our lives, and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
Paulo Coelho – author of The Alchemist
Quotes about Encouragement
7.) In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
8.) The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
9.) Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
10.) Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled. And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
11.) Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Arthur Ashe
12.) I am thankful for all of those who said no to me. Because of them, I’m doing it myself.
Albert Einstein
Check out 27 Best Things Ever Written
13.) Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
14.) The best revenge is massive success.
Frank Sinatra
15.) You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.
Unknown
Check out Inspiring Quotes for Women.
Encouragement Sayings
16.) The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.
Will Rogers
17.) I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
18.) How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
19.) If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
Sheryl Sandberg
20.) You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.
Joel Osteen
21.) 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.
Hellen Keller
22.) It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi
23.) Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
24.) The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.
Amelia Earhart
Check out Courage Quotes.
Study Hard – Learn Well
25.) Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen Keller
26.) You get what you settle for.
Thelma and Louise
27.) Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
Steve Martin
28.) Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King
29.) People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Rob Siltanen
30.) The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.
Zig Ziglar
31.) Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
32.) Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth
33.) You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
34.) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
35.) Instruction does much, but encouragement is everything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
36.) Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Emerson
See Check out Encouragement Messages and Captions.
Short Encouragement Quotes
37.) Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino
38.) Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
Ray Kroc
39.) Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
W. Clement Stone
40.) Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration.
Thomas Edison
41.) I find hope in the darkest of days and focus on the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama
42.) Head up, heart open. To better days!
T.F. Hodge
43.) Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
44.) We will fail when we fail to try.
Rosa Parks
45.) Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
46.) We become what we think about.
Earl Nightingale
Uplifting Quotes
47.) Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison
48.) If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.
Dhirubhai Ambani
49.) Come friends, it’s not too late to seek a newer world.
Alfred Tennyson
50.) 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
51.) The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
Michael Altshuler
52.) Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Tip: Consider using these encouraging quotes for photo captions, notes to friends, and photo books.
Keep Your Chin Up
53.) We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou
54.) The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker
55.) You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis
56.) Pearls don’t lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it.
Chinese Proverb
57.) The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.
Criss Jami
58.) It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary
59.) We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.
Dr. Henry Link
Inspirational Encouraging Quotes
60.) Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.
Maya Angelou
61.) Keep your face always toward the sunshine— and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
62.) We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
63.) Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Vincent Van Gogh
64.) Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.
Albert Einstein
65.) Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
66.) Light tomorrow with today.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
67.) Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
For more Gandhi Quotes.
Motivational Quotes
68.) If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
69.) Only those who play to win. Only those who risk to win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.
Iveta Cherneva
70.) Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic entrepreneur.
Mohnish Pabrai
71.) It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle
72.) Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
73.) Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King
74.) Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
75.) I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.
Serena Williams
Positive Quotes
76.) Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe
77.) I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
Herman Melville
78.) It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love
79.) You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.
Diane von Furstenberg
80.) Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun
81.) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
82.) The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.
Steve Jobs
If you have any suggestions for our Encouraging Quotes page, please let us know via the Contact page. Thanks.
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
You’re on Encouraging Quotes.
You might enjoy:
