Encouragement Quotes

Life can be filled with uncertainties, these encouragement quotes remind us that we all take knocks in life, but the best things in life come through persistence and firm determination. The way we think and feel about ourselves, including our beliefs and expectations about what is possible for us, determines alot what happens to us.

Whatever you’re struggling with, read through our collection of encouragement quotes to keep yourself motivated. You can also share with your loved ones to inspire them to stay strong and persistent through life hurdles.

75 Powerful Encouragement Quotes

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”– Mary Anne Radmacher

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
– George Lorimer

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”– Abraham Lincoln

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”– Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”
– Sarah Dessen

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
– Marie Curie

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”– Richard Branson

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”– Oprah Winfrey

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”– Mark Twain

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”– Charles F. Kettering

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”– Buddha

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”– Ann Landers

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”– Samuel Beckett

“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

“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”– Flavia Weedn

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”– Robert H. Schuller

“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”– Denis Waitley

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”– Thomas Jefferson

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”– Dale Carnegie

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”_Herman Cain

“Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.”– Calvin Coolidge

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of a greater or equal benefit.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. “– Leo F. Buscaglia

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”– Christopher Reeve

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”– Helen Keller

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”– J.K. Rowling

“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”– Theodore Roosevelt

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”– Lucille Ball

“’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”– Alfred Lord Tennyson

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”– Marcus Aurelius

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”– Soren Kierkegaard

“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

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
– Bruce Lee

“Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here.” – Donald Trump

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”– Henry Ford

“When you’re feeling your worst, that’s when you get to know yourself the best.”– Leslie Grossman

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.”– George Bernard Shaw

“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”– Peter Drucker

“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”– Walt Disney

“Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.”– Unknown

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”– Buddha

“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”– Dale Carnegie

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” –Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”– Epictetus

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”– Wayne Dyer

“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.”
– David M. Burns

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”’– Hermann Hesse

“Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.”
– Unknown

“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”— Albert Einstein

“Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.”– Joel Osteen

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”– Florence Nightingale

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”– Robert Collier

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”– Groucho Marx

“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.” –Bob Goff

“God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.” – John Aughey

Much of the difference you make tomorrow will start with what you do today. Ernie J Zelinski

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”– Eleanor Roosevelt

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”– Kahlil Gibran

“A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
– John Burroughs

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”– Michael Jordan

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

“You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” – Unknown

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers

“If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”– David Allen

“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”– Thomas Paine

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”– Chinese Proverb

“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”– Carl Bard

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