Top 200 Encouragement Quotes (2024 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. “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

3. “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

4. “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

5. “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, Career Development 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

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, Challenges Quotes

8. “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

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, Opportunity Quotes

10. “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

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

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Quotes About Skills

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

— Billie Jean King

Also featured in: Motivational Workout Quotes, Competition Quotes, Sports 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: Wise Quotes, Character Quotes, Gratitude 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: Choices Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes, Thought Provoking 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, Future Quotes, Book Quotes

16. “It’s not over until you win.”

— Les Brown

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

17. “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

18. “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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

20. “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, Graduation Quotes

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

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Encouraging Quotes

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

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Action Quotes, Quality Quotes, Powerful 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. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

25. “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, Growth Quotes

26. “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, Effort Quotes

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Change Quotes, Quotes About Thinking

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

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

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Action Quotes

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

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

32. “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

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Quality Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Quotes About Trying

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, Effort Quotes

36. “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, Wisdom Quotes, Moving On Quotes

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

— Rumi

Also featured in: Law Of Attraction Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Moving On Quotes

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

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Mind 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, Achievement Quotes

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

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Growth Quotes

42. “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, Opportunity Quotes, Choices Quotes

43. “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

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

— Colin Powell

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Quality Quotes

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

— Jim Valvano

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

46. “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, Struggle Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

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

— Les Brown

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

48. “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, Achievement Quotes

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

— W. Clement Stone

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Effort 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, Wisdom Quotes, Growth Quotes