Encouraging Quotes

“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“You can be a natural athlete with terrible work habits, and that ends up wasting your gifts.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

“It doesn’t matter how smart you are or what you know; if you learn to put those two things together, to let your pain drive your talent, you can become the best at anything you do in life.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

“If you walked away from a

toxic, negative, abusive,

one-sided, dead-end

low vibrational

relationship or friendship

— you won.”
― Lalah Delia

“If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.”
― Matt D. Miller

“Everything is within your power,
and your power is within you.”
― Janice Trachtman, Catching What Life Throws at You: Inspiring True Stories of Healing

“I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength and resolve. I hope you find whatever balance you seek with your eyes wide open. And I hope that you - yes, you - have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“Hope springs forever.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Tatakae!”
― Hajime Isayama

“Human love needs answers and proof, while divine love needs nothing more than the feeling and the awareness of its existence.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

“For within your flesh, deep within the center of your being, is the undaunted, waiting, longing, all-knowing. Is the ready, able, perfect. Within you, waiting its turn to emerge, piece by piece, with the dawn of every former test of trial and blackness, is the next unfolding, the great unfurling of wings, the re-forged backbone of a true Child of Light.”
― Jennifer DeLucy

“Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“~ Faith lightens the path your shadowed mind has to walk ~”
― Michelle Horst, Visions and Shadows

“Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.”
― Joyce Meyer, Making Good Habits, Breaking Bad Habits: 14 New Behaviors That Will Energize Your Life

“When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.”
― Roy Bennett

“It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.”
― Oscar Arias

“Sigh like the wind--open your arms, your chest, your heart--and all creatures will hum to you.”
― Penelope Smith, Animal Talk: Interspecies Telepathic Communication

“Hope is one of our central emotions, but we are often at a loss when asked to define it. Many of us confuse hope with optimism, a prevailing attitude that "things turn out for the best." But hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "Think Positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality. Although there is no uniform definition of hope, I found on that seemed to capture what my patients had taught me. Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye- a path to a better future. Hope acknowledges the significant obstacles and deep pitfalls along that path. True hope has no room for delusion.”
― Jerome Groopman, The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness

“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, ⎯ is it not the age of Revolution; when
the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar Self-Reliance Compensation

“They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”
― Patricia Christian Punches, Even When Life Doesn't Play Nice: One Child's Journey from Unfavorable Beginnings a Memoir

“Don’t wait until you think you’re ready—just start writing.”
― J. Edwards Holt

“Although he knew all the best — or, at least, the least boring — stories in the Bible, Mr. Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith’s opposite.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“The journey to success is very scary, sad, hard, tough, and rough. It's not easy, but you must start it to become successful in life.”
― Onipede Ayomide

“Even on the days when she had no clue what would come next, she could trust the Creator and His promise. This she knew to be true, for this was all that mattered.
- from Penelope's Crown featured in No Clue: A King's Daughters' Anthology”
― Kylie Hunt, No Clue: A King’s Daughters’ Anthology

“It's ingredients and a recipe. Anyone could do it."
"But you chose to do it.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“What you do in this moment decides your future. Whatever you have done in the past is irrelevant, it has already lead to this moment.”
― Anonymous

“I've been running away my entire life. I never fought for freedom, only waited for it. And I don't think I can live like that anymore.”
― Elizabeth Lee, Broken Ribs

“Shrike.” He leans close, his distress evident. “She’s penned a play,” he says. “I can feel it. Don’t act the
part she’s written for you.”

- Avitas Harper”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates