30 Encouraging Quotes
Need a midweek lift? How about some words of encouragement. (Quotes from various websites and books.)
1. “Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.” –Hugh Miller
2. “A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn. ” –Unknown
3. “I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength.” –Paul
4. “Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.” –Aldous Huxley
5. “When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.” –Unknown
6. “I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” –David
7. “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” –Alexander Graham Bell
8. “Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” –Anne Frank
9. “Never give in… never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force.. never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” –Winston Churchill
10. “Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” –Unknown
11. “I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” –Christ
12. “They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.” –Sir Frances Bacon
13. “Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.” –Nicholas Murray Butler
14. “You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.” –Zig Ziglar
15. “Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” –Jesus
16. “People who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who do nothing and succeed.” –Unknown
17. “He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.” –William James
18. “Instead of giving myself reasons why I can’t, I give myself reasons why I can.” –Anonymous
19. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” –Franklin Roosevelt
20. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” –Richard Bach
21. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” –Japanese proverb
22. “I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there you may be also.” –Jesus
23. “If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.” –Flavia Weedn
24. “One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.” –Col. Harland Sanders
25. “If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.” –Dave Ramsey
26. “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” –Dr. Seuss
27. “Remember that what happens in you is more important than what happens to you.” –John Maxwell
28. “Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.” –Liz Smith
29. “Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.” –Mia Hamm
30. “They who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.” –Isaiah
2 Comments
Mom
What a blessing to have a son who lifts my spirits everyday. I am so glad to see the encouraging words from the Bible included in this list. Thank you.
JimmyBean
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A definite great read..Jim Bean