Use these wonderful quotes about encouragement as a source of motivation to help you make success instead of complaining about them. As soon as you finish reading these profound sayings on motivation, you will have the power to move your worry and set your goals on anything you put your mind to!
Have you found any inspiration in these words to live by? Which of the quotations did you like most and why? Please share your thoughts with us in the comment area below.
Inspirational Quotes for When Your Mood Could Use a Boost
1. “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”— Imam Ali
2. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” — Judy Garland
3. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.”– Robert Frost
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4. “I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.” —Gustave Flaubert
5. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
6. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou
7. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
8. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
9. “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
10. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.“ – Frederick Douglass
Inspirational Quotes for When Your Mood Could Use a Boost
11. “Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
13. “The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
14. “Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.” – Mario Fernandez
15. “The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.” –Bette Davis
16. “How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?” – Seth Godin
17. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
18. “Don’t let anyone convince you, ever again, that you’re nothing without them.”― Julia Ash
19. “Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”– Jacques Prevert
Inspiring Words of Encouragement to Brighten Your Day
20. “Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
21. “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” — Anne Frank
22. “Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” – Benjamin Franklin
23. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” – Stephen King
24. “Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.” – Alice Walker
25. “I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.” – Yaya DaCosta
26. “It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.” – Ian Mcewan
27. “You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.” – Joel Osteen
28. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
29. “An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.” – Gary Hamel
30. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
31. “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.” – Henry Rollins
32. “It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.”– Confucius
33. “Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” — Oprah
34. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” – Og Mandino
35. “When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” —Wilma Rudolph
36. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
37. “We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.” – Mary Dunbar
38. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”― Arthur C. Clarke
39. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson
40. “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
41. “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.” – Nayvadius Cash
42. “It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald
43. “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
44. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
45. “Don’t resist the growing pains, push through them.”― Germany Kent
46. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
47. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
48. “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
49. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama
50. “Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.” – Marie Forleo
51. “Do one thing every day that scares you.”― Eleanor Roosevelt
52. “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
53. “Don’t wait for the right moment. Just get started and learn along the way.”― Garima Soni
54. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”― Confucius
55. “A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.” – Albert Einstein
56. “Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
57. “Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to our eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.” –Brooke Foss Westcott
58. “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.” — Catherine Cook
59. “Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle.” — Jon Acuff
60. “The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of a man who refuses to bow to the terror.” – Ernst Junger
It’s possible that we’re upset that something didn’t go according to plan, or that we’re having trouble figuring out why something didn’t work. It’s possible that we don’t understand why we weren’t chosen for the campaign this time, or why people didn’t react with excitement to something we were certain they would adore.
For whatever reason, there are times when all it takes to tell us that everything is going to be OK, that we will work things out, and that everything truly does happen for a purpose are just a few words of encouragement from famous people.
You are going to find a collection of motivational quotations below from people who are far better than I am at providing you with the motivation and inspiration that you need to pull you up and get you moving in the right path.
Which of these uplifting quotations do you find most meaningful to you? It is not abnormal to have feelings of depression from time to time. But you should know that no matter what it is that you are going through at the moment, you will be OK in the end. Things have a habit of working themselves out at the very moment that we are the least prepared for them. Just remember to retain a positive attitude and tuck these motivational quotations away in your wallet (or on your iPad).
