Encouraging Life Quotes:

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

- Vince Lombardi

source: Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Football, Softball Team

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Happiness, Spiritual, Encouragement, Spiritual Awareness, Inspirational Meditation

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Someone Dying, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

- Victor Kiam

topic: Motivational, Moving On, Failure, Inspirational Moving Forward, Inspirational Moving On

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Live Life To Its Fullest, Life Philosophy

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.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Good Character, Soul Force

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

- William James

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Social Good, Make Me Feel Better

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

- Edmund Hillary

source: "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational High School Graduation

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Happiness, Being Happy, Soulmate, Joy Happiness, Just Be Happy

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Thought Of The Day, Try Again

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Life Wisdom, Perserverance

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement, Encouraging Words, Encouraging Life

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.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement, Encouraging Life, Accept Me

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Joe Strummer

topic: Perseverance, Determination, Persistence, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

- Steve Prefontaine

topic: Business Life, Good Success, Inspirational Track, Monday Morning Motivational, Morning Motivation

The best revenge is massive success.

- Frank Sinatra

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, About Success, Massive Change

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Encouraging Words, Words Of Courage

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

- Grenville Kleiser

source: "On the Art of Business". Book by James Howard Merkel, Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij, p.66, February 1, 2004.

topic: Inspiring, Depression, Funny Inspirational, Gin And Tonic, Mind And Body

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

- Mary Pickford

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Failure In Life, Encouraging Words

Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

- Robert H. Schuller

source: "Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking" by Robert H. Schuller, (p. 90), 1967.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Moving On, Solved Problems, Having A Bad Day

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

source: "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Inspirational Cancer, Do Not Give Up

"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

- Mary Pickford

source: "Why Not Try God?". "St. Petersburg Times" Newspaper, sect. 2, (p. 3), January 25, 1936.

topic: Encouraging, Perseverance, Encouragement, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, Inspirational Perseverance

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

- Thomas Watson, Jr.

topic: Encouraging, Simple, Giving, About Success, Failure In Life

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.

- Jerry Fleishman

topic: Encouraging, Encouragement, Swimming, Funny Swimming, Motivational Swimming

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Travel, Solo Travel, Soul Life

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live For Yourself, Man Of My Dreams

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Calvin Coolidge

source: Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

topic: Persistence, Men, World, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.

- Bonnie McFarlane

topic: Break Up, Encouraging, Broken Heart, Live In The Now, Life Opportunity

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Starting Over, Too Late, Want, Stay Motivated, Never Too Late

Nothing in this 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. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Life Going On, Inspirational Motivational Images

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

- Farrah Gray

source: FaceBook post by Dr. Farrah Gray from May 27, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Dream, Journey To Success, Inspirational Attitude

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiration And Life, Spiritual Advice

Start where you are, use what you have.

- Arthur Ashe

source: "7 Most Touching Moments from Michael Sam's ESPY Arthur Ashe Award Speech" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. July 17, 2014.

topic: Use, Where You Are, Pushing On, Inspirational Motivational Images, Live Your Dreams

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Is Simple, Courage To Change

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

- David Allen

topic: Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement, Encouraging Words, Words Of Courage

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

source: "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

topic: Inspirational, Encouragement, Powerful, Powerful Women, Power And Control

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Mans Search For Meaning, Live To The Fullest

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

- Unknown

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Empowering Women

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

- John D. Rockefeller

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Success, Business Life, Good Success

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Life, Positive, Happiness, Self Determination, Fear None

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

- Benjamin Spock

source: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

topic: Family, Trust, Encouraging, Trust Your Instincts, Inspirational Confidence

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Planting Seeds

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Give Me Strength, Self Determination

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Self Determination, Inspirational Change