43 Encouraging Quotes

It does not take a lot of effort to offer some simple words of encouragement to someone that needs it. Here is a collection to some great encouraging quotes to bring you a new message of hope in your life.

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

“Always say ‘yes’ to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is?”

“Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.”

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

“By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands — your own.”

“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.”

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”

“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”

“Expect and prepare for criticism, discouragement, and sabotage from others. Laugh them off, avoid them, and take counter-measures as needed.”

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keep friends.”

“Hold on to what is good, even if it’s a handful of earth.”

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”

“I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.”

“If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.”

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”

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

“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.”

“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”

“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”

“Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.”

“Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.”

“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

“Perhaps everything terrible is in its being something that needs our love.”

“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

“Tell you heart that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.”

“The goal then is to pay that forward and encourage others to do the same while leading a righteous life by example, always striving to forgive the trespasses of others and forgive yourself as well.”

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future… but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

“Today is the oldest you have been, and the youngest you will ever be. Make the most of it!”

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

“What you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to you at this moment.”

“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.”

“When you are around people that have the same mindset as you do, it helps encourage you to work towards your goals even more.”

“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.”

“You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

There are a multitude of ways you can go about being encouraging and offering hope to others. Be the change in someone’s life today.