encouraging quotes
Encouraging Quotes
Have you lost your courage somewhere? Here are some great and famous encouraging quotes to light up your way, and find your courage again.
Encouragement is the wick in the candle of life.
If there is anything that can turn a bad day around, it is a little tap of encouragement on the shoulder. Life can be hard at times, unfair or unforgiving; bogging us down by every inch. We may feel the coldness of despair or hopelessness looming over us. We may even convince ourselves that we have lost it already. But as they say, "the darker the night, the brighter the stars." With the help of a few words of encouragement such as these, we can nudge ourselves forward, and pull ourselves from the murky waters of self-doubt and pessimism. Life is great and living it is a great sense of encouragement in itself. So, with that thought in mind, let us find ourselves some encouragement and hope from the quotes penned below.
Inspiring and Motivating Quotes
The following list of quotes are not just motivating, but make you think outside the box. Life is difficult, but a few encouraging words can make all the difference in the world.
Pray, and let God worry.
~ Martin Luther
Dream big and dare to fail.
~ Norman Vaughan
A leader is a dealer in hope.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The best way out is always through.
~ Robert Frost
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.~ Lao Tzu
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
~ Milton Berle
You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.
~ Joel Osteen
If you're going through hell, keep going.
~ Winston Churchill
Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees.
~ Sumi
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~ Albert Camus
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
~ Nora Ephron
Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.
~ Alfred Tennyson
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
~ Emily Dickinson
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
~ Brian Tracy
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
~ Walt Disney
You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom.
~ Roz Inga
Just pick a goal and stick to it; no big complicated secret.
~ Richelle E. Goodrich
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
~ George S. Patton
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
~ Buddha
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
~ Albert Einstein
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
~ Albert Einstein
And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.
~ Steve Jobs
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
~ Richard Bach
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
~ Winston Churchill
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
~ Buddha
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Regardless of the shadows that cross the moon to make it appear less than it is, to the moon, it is always full. So it is with us.
~ Buddha
It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.
~ Karen Marie Moning
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
But I've bought a big bat.
I'm all ready, you see.
Now my troubles are going
To have troubles with me!
~ Dr. Seuss
Leaving you with one more thoughtful and encouraging quote, "No one, in this world, can give you the gift of a genuine encouragement, better than the inner you!"