Comforting words of encouragement and inspiration are many times, the best means to help someone feel better. They can soothe an aching heart, help heal a broken relationship, give the courage to fight difficulties and motivate someone to move on. These words are the best ways to rebuild lost confidence and restore lost hope. Let us take a look at some good words of strength and encouragement. Encouraging Words of Strength "Do what you can, where you are, with what you have." - Theodore Roosevelt ''Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.'' - Mary Manin Morrissey ''Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.'' - Mark Twain ''What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.'' - Napoleon Hill "It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."" - Abraham Lincoln "Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts." - Author Unknown "Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can." - Author Unknown "People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do." - Lewis Cass "Everything will be OK in the end, if it's not OK, it's not the end.'' - Author Unknown ''You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?''' - George Bernard Shaw ''Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.'' - Mark Victor Hansen "Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley ''The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it.'' - Lloyd Dobens "Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful." - Brian Tracy "If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." - Mary Pickford "When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place." - Author Unknown "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein "Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock." - Author Unknown "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt "Every great achievement was once considered impossible." - Author Unknown ''Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.'' - Jackie Joyner-Kersee ''Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.'' - Thomas A. Bennett ''If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.'' - Ralph Waldo Emerson "When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell "Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles. Your decision to be, have and do something out of the ordinary entails facing difficulties and challenges that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else." - Brian Tracy "When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, 'Try it one more time.' " - Author Unknown Words of Encouragement from the Bible ''God loves you and He has chosen you.'' - 1 Thessalonians 1:4-5 ''Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.'' - Deuteronomy 31:6 "My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." - Psalm 73:26 "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me." - Psalm 23:4 ''Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.'' - Matthew 11:28-30 ''Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!'' - Psalms 27:14 ''Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.'' - Philippians 4:6 ''For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, Saying to you, 'Fear not, I will help you.'' - Isaiah 41:13 ''Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.'' - Galatians 6:9 ''Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and depart from evil.'' - Proverbs 3:5-7. These were some words of encouragement and strength that can help in bad times. Look at how words are. When nothing seems to be resolvable, words can bring hope, when times seem difficult, words can restore courage and when life poses a problem on every step, encouraging words give the impetus to fight back.