Encouraging famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.
-- Adam Osborne -
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
-- Albert Camus -
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 -
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein -
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
-- Anatole France -
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
-- Aristotle -
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
-- Arthur Golden -
I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
-- Benjamin Spock -
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
-- Bernard Baruch -
The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.
-- Brennan Manning -
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
-- Brian Tracy -
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.
-- Caroline Wells Healey Dall -
No man knows what he can do until he tries.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
-- Chanakya -
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
-- Charles Darwin -
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
-- Charles Dickens -
Do not look to your hope, but to Christ, the source of your hope.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.
-- Clementine Paddleford -
One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
-- Colonel Sanders -
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
-- Dalai Lama -
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
-- Dale Carnegie -
If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.
-- David Allen -
The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.
-- David Brin -
I learned that there were two ways I could live my life: following my dreams or doing something else. Dreams aren't a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. When I dream, I believe I am rehearsing my future.
-- David Copperfield -
We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.
-- David Platt -
Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.
-- David Platt -
Christianity does not start with an invitation we offer to Jesus, but with an invitation Jesus offers to us.
-- David Platt -
I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.
-- David Platt -
Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears
-- Demi Lovato -
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
-- Denis Waitley -
You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
-- Diana Ross -
Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
-- Edmund Burke -
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
-- Edwin Markham -
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
What one has to do usually can be done.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
-- Elie Wiesel -
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson -
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
-- Epictetus -
Men have the grand vision, and they pass it on to somebody else to put into practice. Women follow the details more, they want to know that it is being put into practice.
-- Eugenia Charles -
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he finds a rock beneath him.
-- F.B. Meyer -
Hidden in the hollow Of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, Never traitor stand; Not a surge of worry, Not a shade of care, Not a blast of hurry Touch the Spirit there.
-- Frances Ridley Havergal -
There are no facts, only interpretations.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
-- Garrison Keillor -
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
-- George Matthew Adams -
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
-- George S. Patton -
In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.
-- George S. Patton -
The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.
-- Gilda Radner -
My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.
-- Grace Slick -
Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
-- Helen Keller -
This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.
-- Hermann Hesse -
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
-- Hugh Miller -
Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
-- Ingrid Bergman -
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
-- James Allen -
Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.
-- Jennifer Granholm -
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.
-- Jerry Fleishman -
No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.
-- Jim Harrison -
If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future.
-- Jim Stovall -
You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.
-- Joel Osteen -
Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
-- John C. Maxwell -
If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
-- John Foster Dulles -
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
-- John Lennon -
If we wait upon God, there is no danger. If we rush on, He must let us see the consequences of it.
-- John Nelson Darby -
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
-- Joseph Campbell -
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
-- Joseph Campbell -
Turn you situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime.
-- Joyce Meyer -
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 -
I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
-- Katherine Mansfield -
It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.
-- Ken Hensley -
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!
-- Lauryn Hill -
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
-- Leo Buscaglia -
Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
-- Les Brown -
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
-- Les Brown -
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
-- Lin Yutang -
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery -
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
-- Lydia M. Child -
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
-- Margaret Thatcher -
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
-- Margaret Thatcher -
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
-- Marianne Williamson -
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
-- Marie Curie -
We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.
-- Mattie Stepanek
