Best 275 quotes in «encouraging quotes» category

If you wonder how you'll get through this new heartbreak, just think back. Remember all you've been through in the past. And how each time you swore, you'd never get through it. But you did. And look where you're at now. This too shall pass!

I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

I honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your opponent and have a genuine desire for team victory, you will become the national champions. If you have all the above, you will acquire confidence and poise, and you will have those intangibles that win the close ones.

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.

It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given.

I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back.

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

I would rather stay positive and get 50 percent good results, than stay negative and get 100 percent bad results!

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

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Keep passing the open windows.

Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to attack the day and attack your life with a whole new attitude. This was a gift for me. I guess before the illness I just lived. Now, after the illness, I live strong.

Life has a much bigger plan for you. Happiness is part of that plan. Health is part of that plan. Stability is part of that plan. Constant struggle is not.

Men have the grand vision, and they pass it on to somebody else to put into practice. Women follow the details more, they want to know that it is being put into practice.

Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

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

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

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.

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.