Encouraging Quotations

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

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

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

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

We are all experts in our own little niches.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

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

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, 'Oh, she's nice,' but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that's a good person.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

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.

The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

What one has to do usually can be done.

It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

When its dark enough you can see the stars.

The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.

First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.

As a designer and someone that likes getting my hands dirty, it's hard. It's a competition. I can't give too much away. One thing I could do was offer encouraging words.

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.