Top 200 Encouragement Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”

— Denis Waitley

102. “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”

— Fred Rogers

103. “Don’t allow negative people to steal your joy. When you lose your joy, you lose your strength.”

— Joel Osteen

104. “For your life to be great, your faith must be bigger than your fear.”

— Robin S. Sharma

105. “There are no problems, only solutions.”

— John Lennon

106. “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”

— Scott Hamilton

107. “The best revenge is to improve yourself.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

108. “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”

— Zig Ziglar

109. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

— Maya Angelou

110. “Dreams are not those that come to us while we are sleeping, but dreams are those that you don’t sleep before fulfilling them.”

— Abdul Kalam

111. “How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”

— Seth Godin

112. “You don’t need to be better than anyone else; you just need to be better than you used to be.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

113. “Don’t quit. You’re already in pain. You’re already hurt. Get a reward from it!”

— Eric Thomas

114. “If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t you will see obstacles.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

115. “Whatever life may send your way – make the best of it. Don’t waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation.”

— Les Brown

116. “If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”

— Zig Ziglar

117. “People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.”

— Warren Buffett

118. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

— Stephen Hawking

119. “Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.”

— Zig Ziglar

120. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.”

— Michael Jordan

121. “Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”

— Gail Devers

122. “Start before you’re ready.”

— Steven Pressfield

123. “Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.”

— Zig Ziglar

124. “Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.”

— W. Clement Stone

125. “Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.”

— Emma Donoghue

126. “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

127. “Running teaches us that we are capable of so much more than we ever imagined.”

— PattiSue Plumer

128. “When you know better you do better.”

— Maya Angelou

129. “All powers are within you, you can do anything and everything.”

— Swami Vivekananda

130. “Make every day your masterpiece. ”

— John Wooden

131. “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

— Barack Obama

132. “When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.”

— Joyce Meyer

133. “Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

134. “If you want things to change, you have to change. If you want things to be better, you have to be better.”

— Jim Rohn

135. “The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”

— Steven Furtick

136. “All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”

— Swami Vivekananda

137. “When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.”

— Zig Ziglar

138. “There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.”

— Henry Ford

139. “The life of your dreams, everything you would love to be, do or have, has always been closer to you than you knew, because the power to everything you want is inside you.”

— Rhonda Byrne

140. “If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”

— Steve Jobs

141. “There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind.”

— Brian Tracy

142. “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.”

— Oprah Winfrey

143. “When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

144. “Do what makes you happy. Keep it simple. Do the research. Work hard. Look ahead.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

145. “You can make anything by writing.”

— C. S. Lewis

146. “Consistency is the key! If you can’t be consistent, then you can’t be anything.”

— Tony Gaskins

147. “The secret to living is giving.”

— Tony Robbins

148. “Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action.”

— Abdul Kalam

149. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

— Mother Teresa

150. “Every setback is a setup for a comeback!”

— Joel Osteen