Top 200 Encouraging Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

102. “Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

103. “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”

— Kobe Bryant

104. “If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

— Wayne W. Dyer

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

— Abdul Kalam

107. “It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

— Dale Carnegie

108. “Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.”

— Edwin Louis Cole

109. “To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening.”

— Richard Branson

110. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

— Oprah Winfrey

111. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”

— Oprah Winfrey

112. “Believe that you will succeed, and you will.”

— Dale Carnegie

113. “Failure is an option. It’s what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can’t sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.”

— David Goggins

114. “Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Robert Frost

116. “One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”

— Tony Robbins

117. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”

— Richard Branson

118. “Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.”

— Nelson Mandela

119. “In today’s rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.”

— Eckhart Tolle

120. “No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.”

— Eric Thomas

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

— Rumi

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

— Zig Ziglar

123. “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It’s yours.”

— Ayn Rand

124. “Set your goal and keep moving forward.”

— Georges St-Pierre

125. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”

— Jack Canfield

126. “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”

— Thomas A. Edison

127. “Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.”

— John C. Maxwell

128. “Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.”

— John Wooden

129. “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”

— Rumi

130. “God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

131. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”

— Paulo Coelho

132. “Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

133. “This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”

— Alan Watts

134. “Smile, breathe and go slowly.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

135. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”

— Nora Roberts

136. “I will persist until I succeed!”

— Og Mandino

137. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.”

— Louise Hay

138. “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Samuel Beckett

140. “Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

141. “Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.”

— Oprah Winfrey

142. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

144. “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom.”

— Jim Rohn

145. “There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope.”

— Stephen Hawking

146. “Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn’t lie.”

— Oprah Winfrey

147. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

— William James

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

— Demi Lovato

149. “Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life – all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.”

— Zig Ziglar

150. “Hard work and training. There’s no secret formula.”

— Ronnie Coleman