Top 40 Encouraging Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The best way out is always through.”

— Robert Frost

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

2. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes

3. “Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Smile Quotes

4. “Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.”

— Victor Hugo

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes

5. “Action is the foundational key to all success. ”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Action Quotes, Productivity Quotes

6. “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.”

— Les Brown

7. “If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it.”

— Kim Garst

8. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don’t have strength.”

— Napoleon

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Confidence Quotes

9. “All great achievements require time.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Perseverance Quotes

10. “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.”

— Marie Curie

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

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

— Niels Bohr

12. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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13. “Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

14. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

— Albert Einstein

15. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Startup Quotes, Inspirational Quotes

16. “Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”

— William Arthur Ward

17. “You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don’t quit!”

— Joyce Meyer

Also featured in: Quitting Quotes

18. “If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door- or i’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

— Joseph Campbell

20. “Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

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

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Also featured in: Giving Up Quotes

22. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”

— Robert H. Schuller

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes

23. “A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

— Muhammad Ali

24. “Turn your situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime.”

— Joyce Meyer

25. “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.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Uplifting Quotes

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

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Uplifting Quotes

27. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”

— Albert Camus

28. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”

— William James

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Life Quotes, Bullying Quotes

29. “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

— Nora Ephron

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

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Failure Quotes

31. “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.”

— Marianne Williamson

Also featured in: Inspirational 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. “Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.”

— Denis Waitley

34. “Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.”

— Benjamin Spock

Also featured in: Quotes About Trust, Family Quotes

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

— Og Mandino

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

36. “Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.”

— Wendy Wasserstein

Also featured in: Powerful Quotes

37. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”

— Susan Sontag

Also featured in: Travel Quotes

38. “If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”

— David Allen

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Faith Quotes

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

— Elie Wiesel