Best 275 quotes in «encouraging quotes» category

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.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

Stop worrying and start living.

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

The area where we struggle the most is often the area of our greatest effectiveness

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.

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

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.

The awesome thing about failure is that it is only temporary. Embrace it, learn the lesson and come back blazing.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.

There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to show new ways to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings.

There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Things don't happen to us. They happen for us.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.

This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.

Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that is important: they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive

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

To be unafraid of the judgement of others is the greatest freedom you can have.

We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.

We are all experts in our own little niches.

We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.

We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.

Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'