Encouragement is something which everyone requires directly or indirectly. Before any big assignment or after any down fall, it is the word of encouragement which sets the mindset back on track. These words can come from anyone like your friends, mentor, relatives or your boss. Surround yourself with people who push you forward in life and are happy in your progress. Below are the powerful Encouraging Quotes to boost your confidence like never before.
- “Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” – Henry Van Dyke
- “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. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?” – Marianne Williamson
- “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Dr. Benjamin Spock
- “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” — Steve Jobs
- “Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.” – Shawn Johnson
- “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean
- “There are better starters than me but I’m a strong finisher.” – Usain Bolt
- “You were given this life, because you are strong enough to live it.” – Robin Sharma
- “We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.” — C. Joybell C.
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
- “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.” – Alexander Graham Bell
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”- Helen Keller
- “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
- “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis, encouraging quotes CS Lewis
- “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.” – Rumi
- “Tell your 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.” – Paulo Coelho
- “If you’re presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.” – Katy Perry
- “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”- Victor Kiam, encouraging quotes for kids
- “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer
- “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.” – Denis Waitley
- “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” – Epictetus
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
- “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.” -Jim Rohn
- “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb, encouraging quotes for students
- “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” – Robert Schuller
- “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
- “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.” – Mark Victor Hansen
- “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” – Thomas J. Watson
- “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson
- “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison
- “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents — start charging for it.” – Kim Garst
- “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – Lolly Daskal
- “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
- “When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” – Audre Lorde
- “A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.” – Vince Lombardi
- “How we perceive a situation and how we react to it is the basis of our stress. If you focus on the negative in any situation, you can expect high stress levels. However, if you try and see the good in the situation, your stress levels will greatly diminish.” – Catherine Pulsifer
- “Your faith can encourage you, give you strength, help you in hard times and give you hope.” – Catherine Pulsifer
- “People are basically more willing to work together, when the atmosphere encourages it.” – Adam Burns, encouraging quotes for work
- “Today is the oldest you have been, and the youngest you will ever be. Make the most of it!” – Nicky Gumbel
- “It seems that success is not acquired by doing what we want to do but doing the tasks necessary to make it happen.” – Joe Allen and David Donaldson
- “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
- “Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore
- “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” – Willie Nelson
- “If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.” – T. Harv Eker
- “To anyone that ever told you you’re no good … They’re no better.” – Hayley Williams
- “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J.M. Barrie
- “At any given moment you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.” – Christine Mason Miller
- “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
- “Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis, c.s. lewis encouraging quotes
- “The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.” – Anonymous
- “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
- “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – Christopher Robin
- “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” – Joseph Kennedy, an encouraging quotes
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
- “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” – Haruki Murakami
- “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” – Maya Angelou
- “Everything will be OK in the end, if it’s not OK, it’s not the end.” – Anonymous, encouraging quotes by unknown authors
- “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” – Randy Pausch
- “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H.G. Wells
- “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown
- “Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” – Anonymous
- “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
- “The reason a smile attracts people in a social gathering is that they encourage positive response.” – Genevieve Amor
- “When you are around people that have the same mindset as you do, it helps encourage you to work towards your goals even more.” – Michael Henson, encouraging quotes about work
- “The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered, there is opportunity for growth.”—Anonymous
- “Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path, and you will find you have crossed the mountain.”—Anonymous
- “Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” – Earl Nightingale
- “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does anyone else.” – Anonymous
- “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
- “There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.” – William Frederick Halsey, Jr.
- “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” – Bernice Johnson Reagon
- “The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.” – Marjorie Pay Hinckley
- “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
- “Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.” – Dr. Seuss
- “You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.” – Dan Millman
- “Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.” – Demi Lovato
- “We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King, encouraging quotes after a loss
- “There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein
- “Taking care of yourself makes you stronger for everyone in your life… including you.” – Kelly Rudolph
- “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” – Ayn Rand
- “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” – Thomas Edison
- “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” – Sarah Dessen
- “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger, encouraging quotes during hard times
- “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
- “Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of its strength.” – Corrie ten Boom
- “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.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” – Ralph Emerson, encouraging quotes for men
- “A true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.” – Hercules
- “He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.” – Louisa May Alcott
- “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” – Bob Marley
- “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill
- “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
- “It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can’t relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one.” – George Harrison
- “Pain is your friend; it is your ally. Pain reminds you to finish the job and get the hell home. Pain tells you when you have been seriously wounded. And you know what the best thing about pain is? It tells you you’re not dead yet!” – G.I Jane, encouraging quotes for friends
- “I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.” – Jewish Proverb
- “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” – Duke Ellington
- “The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.” – Seneca
- “Adversity is a fact of life. It can’t be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.”
- “The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.” – Charles M Schwab
- “The true test of a person character is how they stand during test of adversity.” – Anonymous, encouraging quotes before a test
- “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan
- “In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” – Lee Iacocca, encouraging quotes about stress
- “Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela, encouraging quotes about life
- “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up.” – Babe Ruth, encouraging quotes morning
- “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe, encouraging quotes not to give up
- “You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.” – Chuck Yeager
- “Survival can be summed up in three words―never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.” – Bear Grylls
More Encouraging Quotes
- “Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton, encouraging quotes for women
- “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.” – Mark Victor Hansen
- “Low self-confidence isn’t a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered–just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better.” – Barrie Davenport, encouraging quotes about change
- “One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” – Arthur Ashe, encouraging quotes about success
- “It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” – Peter T. Mcintyre
- “Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.” – T. Harv Eker
- “I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren’t attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.” – Queen Latifah, encouraging quotes about love
- “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie
- “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller, encouraging quotes of hope
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.” – Robert Downey, Jr.
- “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.” – Anonymous, encouraging quotes
- “Everyone has a story, make your own worth telling.”- Patrick Ricketts
- “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.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
- “If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.” – David Allen
- “I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.” – Dalai Lama
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.” – Cadet Maxim
- “Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.” – Dr. Robert Anthony, encouraging quotes coworkers
- “A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.” – Anonymous
- “Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!” – Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa
- “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek.” — Joseph Campbell
150th is my favorite encouraging quote which is very well said by Sylvester Stallone. Let us know which are the most powerful encouraging quotes according to you.