Encouragement quotes
979 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there."
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
"If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be."
"Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone."
"Don't be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out."
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"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it."
"You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety."
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
"Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour."
"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."
"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly."
"Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors."
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
"We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care."
"Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
"You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life."
"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."
"A leader leads by example not by force."
"For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else."
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."
"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
"When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind."
"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."
