Even when it appears as though it would have been simpler to just sit down and give up, all you have to do is keep pushing onward. Here are some encouraging quotes that, no matter what you're struggling with in life, should give you a breakthrough when you need it. Many of these encouraging quotes are from people who have experienced great success in life, but like you, they have also experienced depressing times when everything appeared impossible. Moreover, feel better about yourself and make a change now!
Encouraging Quotes
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays to us in confidence in the future. – Alice Walker
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers
The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost
Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there. – Bo Jackson
When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them. – Karen E. Quinones Miller
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Confucius
I think Romeo and Juliet are uplifting. That’s how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other. – Ben Kingsley
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. – Les Brown
Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.— Nicole Kidman
Encouraging Quotes On Never Giving Up
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. – Greg Anderson
Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. – Dale Carnegie
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. – Democritus
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. – Bruce Barton
Be thankful for what you have and you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. – Lao Tzu
Encouraging Quotes About Work
A successful can how can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, and catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. – Mark Twain
When we stop opposing reality ty, the action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless. – Byron Katie
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy. – Groucho Marx
I’ve always loved journaling as a way to clear my mind. Whether traveling or at home, the first thing I do when I wake is pulled out my notebook and record positive things that have happened to me and uplifting thoughts. – Gloria Reuben
Precious is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in ‘Precious,’ but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks. – Geoffrey S. Fletcher
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. – Tony Robbins
A constructive, useful life, good works, and good relationships are as valid as writing poetry or inventing the machine. Anything that one does well and obtains satisfaction from is a good enough reason for living. To be a decent human being that people like and feel better for knowing is enough. – Robert Gould
A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for. – Albert Einstein
Don’t forget to also read these quotes from Shawshank Redemption that will give you hope even if it seems like there’s no way out.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain