Top 200 Encouragement Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Quotes About Dreams

2. “The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.”

— Michelle Obama

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Motivational Monday Quotes

3. “Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Positive Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Confidence Quotes

4. “Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can’t do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.”

— Will Smith

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Courage Quotes, Life Quotes, Goal Quotes, Believe in Yourself Quotes

5. “Just stick with it. What seems so hard now will one day be your warm up.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Action Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes

6. “You have something special. You have greatness in you. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

7. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

8. “You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love – who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Positive Quotes, Courage Quotes, Goal Quotes

9. “Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.”

— Mark Cuban

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Success Quotes, Action Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

10. “Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.”

— Billie Jean King

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women, Motivational Workout Quotes

11. “Don’t wish for less problems; wish for more skills.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

12. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Life Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes

13. “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Life Philosophy Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Wise Quotes

14. “The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

15. “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.”

— Melody Beattie

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

16. “It’s not over until you win.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Focus Quotes, Persistence Quotes

17. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Failure Quotes

18. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Failure Quotes

19. “The future depends on what you do today.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Change Quotes, Action Quotes, Study Quotes

20. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes, Friday Quotes for Work

21. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”

— J.K. Rowling

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Failure Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Short Inspiring Quotes

22. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Action Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

23. “It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes, Goal Quotes

24. “When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Focus Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

25. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

26. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Change Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

27. “Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Failure Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Famous Quotes

28. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

29. “Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Action Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

30. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Change Quotes, Action Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

31. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something.”

— Seth Godin

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Goal Quotes, Failure Quotes, Short Positive Quotes

32. “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Positive Motivation Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Quality Quotes

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

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Failure Quotes, Change Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

34. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Quotes About Heart

35. “Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

36. “Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes

37. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

38. “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

39. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

— John Quincy Adams

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Uplifting Quotes, Important Quotes

40. “Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Failure Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

41. “In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Motivational Work Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

42. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Personal Development Quotes

43. “Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.”

— Jim Valvano

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

44. “Don't look back – forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring,and infinite patience – then alone can great deeds be accomplished”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Focus Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Action Quotes

45. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”

— Colin Powell

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work

46. “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

— A. A. Milne

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

47. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Quotes About Dreams

48. “The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Famous Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

49. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”

— W. Clement Stone

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

50. “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

— Louisa May Alcott

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Learning Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Short Quotes