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Introduction
We’ll inevitably all experience hard times at some point in our lives. When these difficult moments come, it’s important to have a support system of family and friends to help us through.
But sometimes, even our loved ones can’t make the pain disappear. That’s when it’s helpful to read inspiring quotes that will encourage us to keep moving forward.
We’ve compiled 131 encouraging quotes that will hopefully help give you that extra push to keep moving forward.
We hope they provide you with the strength you need to get through whatever you’re going through!
Words of Encouragement to Get You Through The Day
1. What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein
5. Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. – Albert Einstein
6. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein
7. Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. – Albert Einstein
8. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein
9. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. – Helen Keller
10. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. – Helen Keller
11. 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. – Helen Keller
Quotes of Encouragement for People Who Feel Like Giving Up
12. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou
13. Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. – Maya Angelou
14. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. – Maya Angelou
15. You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. – Maya Angelou
16. All great achievements require time. – Maya Angelou
17. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. – William James
18. The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. – William James
19. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. – Amelia Earhart
20. The most effective way to do it, is to do it. – Amelia Earhart
Quotes of Encouragement to Inspire and Teach
21. The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. – Oprah Winfrey
22. Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey
23. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always. – Oprah Winfrey
24. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey
25. Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. – Oprah Winfrey
26. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. – Mother Teresa
27. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. – Mother Teresa
28. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank
29. Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is. – Anne Frank
30. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe
Quotes of Encouragement to Inspire and Motivate
31. Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino
32. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. – Og Mandino
33. Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. – Og Mandino
34. Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. – Og Mandino
35. Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. – Og Mandino
36. In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. – Tony Robbins
37. It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela
38. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible! – Audrey Hepburn
39. Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there. – Bo Jackson
40. When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go. – Carol Burnett
41. I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. – Georgia O’Keeffe
Deep Encouragement Quotes to Ponder On
42. Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you see can inspire you. – Grace Coddington
43. There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it. – Amanda Gorman
44. When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. – Malala Yousafzai
45. It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are. – Malala Yousafzai
46. He who has a why to live can bear almost anyhow. – Friedrich Nietzsche
47. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. – Friedrich Nietzsche
48. That which does not kill us makes us stronger. – Friedrich Nietzsche
49. There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. – Friedrich Nietzsche
50. All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Encouraging Quotes About Perseverance
51. It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop. – Confucius
52. Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. – Pele
53. Fall seven times and stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
54. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison
55. As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better. – Dr. Steve Maraboli
56. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. – Walter Elliot
57. When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. – Elon Musk
58. If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. – H. G. Wells
59. Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. – Sam Levenson
60. Either I will find a way, or I will make one. – Philip Sidney
Words of Encouragement About Failure
61. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas A. Edison
62. But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. – Ernest Hemingway
63. A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. – B. F. Skinner
64. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan
65. It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. – Bill Gates
66. Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. – Napoleon Hill
67. Remember that failure is an event, not a person. – Zig Ziglar
68. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. – Abraham Lincoln
69. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. – C. S. Lewis
70. A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. – John Burroughs
Words of Encouragement and Empowerment
71. Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. – Leo Buscaglia
72. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. – Unknown
73. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.- Robert H. Schuller
74. The more things you do, the more you can do. – Lucille Ball
75. Wherever you are – be all there. – Jim Elliot
76. If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. – Emile Zola
77. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. – William Butler Yeats
78. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. – Thomas Paine
79. You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead. – George Lucas
80. No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one. – Jessica Savitch
Encouraging Quotes for Women
81. Be a Girl with a mind, a Woman with attitude, and a Lady with class. – Anonymous
82. The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet. – Mohadesa Najumi
83. Stay strong and make them wonder how you’re still smiling. – Anonymous
84. You are allowed to scream. You are allowed to cry. But do not give up. – Anonymous
85. A strong woman knows how to keep her life in line. With tears in her eyes, she still manages to say, “nah, I’m fine.” – Anonymous
86. Little girls with dreams become women with vision. – Anonymous
87. You can become strong and powerful and beautiful. – Anonymous
88. She builds people up because she knows what it is like to be torn down. – Shannon L. Alder
89. Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it. – Harriet Morgan
90. A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. – Coco Chanel
Encouraging Quotes for Men
91. To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe – Anatole France
92. One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli
93. Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. – Bruce Lee
94. The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. – Dale Carnegie
95. Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. – Franklin Jones
96. Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. – Henry Ford
97. We need men who can dream of things that never were. – John F. Kennedy
98. The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. –Thomas Paine
99. A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call ‘Daddy.’ – Frank Abagnale
100. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. – Samuel Johnson
Encouraging Quotes About Life
101. Life is too short for long-term grudges. – Elon Musk
102. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.
103. We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. – E. M. Forster
104. We do not remember days, we remember moments. – Cesare Pavese
105. The purpose of life is a life of purpose. – Robert Byrne
106. I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. – Arthur Rubinstein
107. One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. – William Feather
108. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. – Josh Billings
109. The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
110. We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. – William Osler
Encouraging Quotes About Change
111. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. – Barack Obama
112. Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster. – Elon Musk
113. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
114. There is nothing permanent except change. – Heraclitus
115. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Alan Watts
116. If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. – Gail Sheehy
117. Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. – A. C. Benson
118. Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett
119. When you blame others, you give up your power to change. – Robert Anthony
120. What’s dangerous is not to evolve. – Jeff Bezos
Encouraging Quotes About Love
121. Where there is love there is life. – Mahatma Gandhi
122. Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ – Erich Fromm
123. Love is a friendship set to music. – Joseph Campbell
124. What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. – Pearl Bailey
125. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. – David Viscott
126. Love has no age, no limit; and no death. – John Galsworthy
127. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. – Dalai Lama
128. Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow. – John Lennon
129. Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy. – Dwight L. Moody
130. Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. – H. L. Mencken
131. There is no remedy for love but to love more. – Henry David Thoreau
Conclusion
We hope you have found these quotes encouraging and that they will help you to overcome adversity in your life.
Which quote was your favorite? Let us know in the comments below!
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