“Failure is the key to success”. Turn your failure to your motivation and encouragement with these excellent, encouraging quotes. Once you read these quotes, you will get inspiration and psychological power to overcome any difficulties you face.
We may feel bad for when something did not go as planned, or sometimes we couldn’t found the reason why something did not work out. Sometimes we are upset when people did not respond with enthusiasm to something, we were sure that they were going to love. No matter what happened or whatever the reason, encouragement quotes remind us that it is all going to be OK. Below we collect best encouraging quotes to help you cope with challenges.
Encouraging quotes
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
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.
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 harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
The best revenge is massive success.
Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Press on – nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.
I’ve always loved journaling as a way to clear my mind. Whether I’m travelling or at home, the first thing I do when I wake up pulls out my notebook and record positive things that have happened to me as well as uplifting thoughts.
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.
This too shall pass.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
The 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.
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.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be a reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
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.
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
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.
When we stop opposing reality, the action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
He who has a why to live can bear almost anyhow.
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.
When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
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.
There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.
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.
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
A constructive, useful life, good works, and good relationships are as valid as writing poetry or inventing the 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.
If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.
A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Never regret something that once made you smile.
Your destiny is to fulfil those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.
It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
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.
I Won’ is not a love song. It’s just me uplifting women in general. I’m giving women the power to treat themselves as a trophy – to show that and know it in yourself and be confident – because when they do that, whoever they’re with is winning.
Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.
It doesn’t matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it’s important to realize that whatever you’re doing, it’s your first attempt at it.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality in the mind next to honour.
The best way out is always through.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
Life is 10 per cent what happens to me and 90 per cent how I react to it
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Do you work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.
Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure.
How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.
Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Do you work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
The most effective way to do it is to do it.
In human life very much normal to feel down and out sometimes. But make sure that whatever the situation you’re facing now, you’ll be tackling it with a strong hand. Things have a way of resolving themselves when we least expect it. So keep your chin up and keep these quotes of encouragement in your pocket.
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