Encouraging Quotes

• You can do anything you set your mind to. Benjamin Franklin

• The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller

• I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' Muhammad Ali

• I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. Jimi Hendrix

• The best revenge is massive success. Frank Sinatra

• I bear a charmed life. William Shakespeare

• There is always something new to learn and feel each Sunday.

• When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. John F Kennedy

• I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids. Bo Jackson

• Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. Albert Camus

• Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes. Eleanor Roosevelt

• Just another Magic Monday Unknown

• Time always exposes what you mean to someone. Unknown

• You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar

• Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going. Chantal Sutherland

• It’s okay to outgrow people who don’t grow. Grow tall anyways.

• A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. Denis Waitley

• Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. Richard Cecil

• I do not regret one moment of my life. Lillie Langtry

• A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Joseph Campbell

• Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. Maya Angelou

• Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen. Andrea Corr

• The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. Barack Obama

• Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. Pope Paul VI

• Don't go through life, grow through life. Eric Butterworth

• Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen. Conan O’Brien

• The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion. Paulo Coelho

• Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney

• Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. W. H. Auden

• Don’t compare yourself to others. Be like the sun and the moon and shine when it’s your time.

• Atticus, he was real nice. Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

• Women must learn to play the game as men do. Eleanor Roosevelt

• Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks. Isaac Watts

• Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. Lao Tzu

• Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. Maya Angelou

• Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried but you’ve actually been planted. Christine Caine

• Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window. William Faulkner

• The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. Henry Ford

• Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. Oscar Wilde

• The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. Confucius

• Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. John Lennon

• If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee

• Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato

• Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!' Steven Wright

• Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. Raymond Joseph Teller

• Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. Theodor Adorno

• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. Erma Bombeck

• Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Steven Biko

• Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. A.A. Milne

• Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten. Unwritten, Natasha Bedingfield

• Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done. Unknown

• When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt

• As soon as there is life there is danger. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do. Arlan Hamilton

• Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. Angelina Jolie

• Life is but thought. Sara Teasdale

• It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life. Jimi Hendrix

• Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them. Mia Hamm

• Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! Bob Marley

• Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. Friedrich Nietzsche

• To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body. Mahatma Gandhi

• Trust yourself that you can do it and get it. Baz Luhrmann

• Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people. The Breakfast Club

• Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark. Dan Millman

• We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. Arthur Ashe

• Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso

• Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. Walter Anderson

• Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt

• A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. Francis Bacon

• This is the strangest life I've ever known. Jim Morrison

• I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

• Nothing in the world 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. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. Calvin Coolidge