Encouraging Quotes to Help Keep You Going

Below is a list of encouraging quotes from people far better than I, at providing you the motivation and inspiration that you need to lift you up and get you headed in the right direction.


1. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

2. “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa

3. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” – Mark Twain

4. “Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie

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

6. “I’ve always loved journaling as a way to clear my mind. Whether I’m traveling or at home, the first thing I do when I wake up is pull out my notebook and record positive things that have happened to me as well as uplifting thoughts.” –  Gloria Reuben

7. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

8. “Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.” – Bruce Barton

9. “Be thankful for what you have and you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey

10. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu

11. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley

12. “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” – Greg Anderson

13. “When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.” – Byron Katie

14. “Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy.” – Groucho Marx

15. “Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.” – Democritus

16. “Precious’ is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in ‘Precious,’ but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.” – Geoffrey S. Fletcher

17. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.“ – Frederick Douglass

18. “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

19. “A constructive, useful life, good works, and good relationships are as valid as writing poetry or inventing a machine. Anything that one does well and obtains satisfaction from is a good enough reason for living. To be a decent human being that people like and feel better for knowing is enough.” – Robert Gould

20. “A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.” – Albert Einstein

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