Encouraging Uplifting Quotes:

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

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

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

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

Action will delineate and define you.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Action, Define You, Inspirational Teamwork, Motivation And Drive, Motivational Teamwork

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

- Henry Ford

topic: Airplane, Wind, Difficult Life, Inspirational Perseverance, Leaders Motivational

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Cancer, Hard Times, Tough Times, Inspirational Cancer, Inspiring Cancer

If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it.

- Kim Garst

source: Twitter post from Oct 13, 2012

topic: Inspirational, Giving, Talent, Best Success, Succeeding In Business

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

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Life, Positive, Success, Inspirational Cancer, Inspiring Cancer

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

- Bonnie McFarlane

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

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

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

- Wayne Dyer

source: FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 12, 2010

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Choose Wisely, Get Over Yourself

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

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

- David Brinkley

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, About Success, Good Success

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

- Kenji Miyazawa

topic: Positive, Pain, Journey, Scoliosis, Hurt And Pain

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

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Difficult Life, Leaders Motivational

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

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

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

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

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

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

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

"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

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Crush, Morning, Motivation, Inspirational Teamwork, Motivational Teamwork

If someone analyzed your words today, what percentage would be tender, encouraging, uplifting, faith-building, and joyful? Would it match Christ's proportions?

- David Jeremiah

topic: Uplifting, Would Be, Today, Encouraging Uplifting