Top 200 Encouraging Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “If you don’t give up, you still have a chance.”

— Jack Ma

152. “Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Napoleon

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Kim Garst

156. “As you ask and feel and believe, you will receive.”

— Rhonda Byrne

157. “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

158. “All great achievements require time.”

— Maya Angelou

159. “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.”

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Stephen Hawking

161. “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

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

— Niels Bohr

163. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

— Margaret Mead

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

— Richard Branson

165. “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

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Albert Einstein

169. “Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It’s your move.”

— Tony Robbins

170. “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

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

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Joyce Meyer

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

— Joyce Meyer

175. “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

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

— Joseph Campbell

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

— George S. Patton Jr.

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

— Robert H. Schuller

179. “Life is a classroom. Only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.”

— Zig Ziglar

180. “It’s not where you start but where you finish that counts.”

— Zig Ziglar

181. “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

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

— Epictetus

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Dale Carnegie

185. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.”

— Howard Thurman

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

— William James

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

— Nora Ephron

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

— Wendy Wasserstein

189. “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

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

— David Allen

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

— Michael Jordan

192. “Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.”

— Denis Waitley

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

— Benjamin Spock

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

— Og Mandino

195. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

— Helen Keller

196. “To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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

— Susan Sontag

198. “Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

200. “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