85 Encouraging Quotes For Inspiration

In a world that often feels overwhelming, a few encouraging words can make all the difference. Whether you're facing a challenging moment or simply need a little boost to get through the day, inspiration can be found in the most surprising places. We've curated a collection of the top 85 encouraging quotes that will uplift your spirits and reignite your passion. These words of wisdom, from some of history's most celebrated thinkers and modern-day visionaries, serve as a gentle reminder that even in the toughest times, hope and strength are always within reach. Let these quotes be a source of inspiration and guidance as you navigate life's winding journey.

1. “I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.” - Frida Kahlo

2. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight,but they, while their companions slept,were toiling upward in the night.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4. “Don't let the muggles get you down.” - J.K. Rowling

5. “Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.” - Steve Martin

6. “The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body; use yours to lift someone up today.” - Terri Ann Armstrong

7. “It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.” - Karen Moning

8. “But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.” - Amy Carmichael

9. “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.” - Richard Bach

10. “Turn lemons into lemonaid” - Kevin Cronin

11. “A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.” - Albert Schweitzer

12. “You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.” - Joel Osteen

13. “And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had the power to heal men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted.” - Cormac McCarthy

14. “Temptation is not to be feared, but controlled.” - Deborah Brodie

15. “Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, "I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help?" We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise.” - Gary Chapman

16. “Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

17. “Years and years ago, I read a great interview with Jam and Lewis, the R&B producers, in which they described what it was like to be members of Prince's band. They'd sit down, and Prince would tell them what he wanted them to play, and they'd explain that they couldn't--they weren't quick enough, or good enough. And Prince would push them and push them until they mastered it, and then just when they were feeling pleased with themselves for accomplishing something they didn't know they had the capacity for, he'd tell them the dance steps he needed to accompany the music.This story has stuck with me, I think, because it seems like an encapsulation of the very best and most exciting kind of creative process.” - Nick Hornby

18. “ Begin again as often as you need to in order to stay on track spiritually...” - Elizabeth Funderbirk

19. “Right!""Right!""You can get there!""I can get there!""You're a natural at counting to two!""I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!""If you can count to two, you can count to anything!""If I can count to two, I can count to anything!""And then the world is your mollusc!""My mollusc! What's a mollusc?” - Terry Pratchett

20. “God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.” - John Ortberg

21. “Never put off writing until you are better at it.” - Gary Henderson

22. “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.” - Anne Lamott

23. “Observation enrich your capacity to think. Solababe” - Sola Ogunseitan

24. “You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom.” - Roz Inga

25. “...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...” - Morgan Matson

26. “Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.” - Rodolfo Costa

27. “A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]” - E.B. White

28. “Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees.” - Sumi

29. “90% of learning comes through encouragement.” - Kevin Thoman

30. “The value of routine; trusting your swing.” - Lorii Myers

31. “Have strength in yourself always .think and remember not just what you should do, but also what you want to do. (Ageha , Basara, Vol. 13)” - Yumi Tamura

32. “Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret.” - Richelle Goodrich

33. “[God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.” - Scott Hahn

34. “If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.” - Scott Hahn

35. “Head up, heart open. To better days!” - T.F. Hodge

36. “Relatives share the same bloodline, but FAMILY shares your successes, pains, ambitions, celebrations, failures, values, love and so much more. I realize that many friends have become Family and some relatives just are not. (Analogy: Blood scatters everywhere, when Family runs together...When I thought I needed "Blood" to survive, I realized that what I really needed was "Family"!)” - Gaye Miller 2012

37. “A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.” - Criss Jami

38. “With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.” - Criss Jami

39. “The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on making it to the rest room "in time" during the extensive rehabilitation that followed her shooting. Her husband, commander of a space shuttle crew, encouraged her by identifying with her limitation. Even revered astronauts, he revealed, have bodily limits and have to rely on Huggies during extended launch exercises.” - Gabrielle Giffords

40. “For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.” - Charles Dickens

41. “He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be.” - Colin Clark

42. “Anybody with leisure can do that who is willing to begin where everything ought to be begun--that is, at the beginning. Nothing worth calling good can or ever will be started full grown. The essential of any good is life, and the very body of created life, and essential to it, being its self operant, is growth. The larger start you make, the less room you leave for life to extend itself. You fill with the dead matter of your construction the places where assimilation ought to have its perfect work, building by a life-process, self-extending, and subserving the whole. Small beginnings with slow growings have time to root themselves thoroughly--I do not mean in place nor yet in social regard, but in wisdom. Such even prosper by failures, for their failures are not too great to be rectified without injury to the original idea.” - George MacDonald

43. “...it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

44. “If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future.” - Jim Stovall

45. “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.” - Stephen R. Covey

46. “Every goal first started as something in our mind. You have it all within you!” - Deborah Day

47. “On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.” - Shelby Foote

48. “Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

49. “Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.” - Kevin Smith

50. “Always be true to yourself and follow your dreams!” - LaDonna M. Cook

51. “This Christmas mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love, and then speak it again.” - Howard W. Hunter

52. “Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish so much. In ANY relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.” - Steve Goodier

53. “Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.” - Randy Alcorn

54. “If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.” - Matt D. Miller

55. “Perseverance is everything. We all stumbled when we took our first steps yet we were running sooner than we realized, and then we couldn’t stay still. Why stay still now?” - Rob Liano

56. “I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance.” - Jim Abbott

57. “Destroy what you have become and become what you did destroy/” - Muhammed Bhikha

58. “It is easy to tell confidence from pride. Confidence lifts, encourages, helps, and is full of gratitude. Pride demeans, mocks, destroys, and is bitter and resentful.” - Damon Throop

59. “Sometimes our work as caregivers is not for the faint of heart. But, you will never know what you are made of until you step into the fire. Step bravely!” - Deborah A. Beasley

60. “The seeds of greatness are sown in ordinary soil.” - Leah Griffith

61. “Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.” - Ed Sheeran

62. “To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

63. “This obsession is a curious thing. Sometimes wonder about the merits of devoting so much of myself to a singular climbing objective. Much of the time it beats me down, leaves me hanging my head in despair. But then there are the moments that bring me to life. When excitement wells up inside my chest in a way that doesn’t happen in every day life. Today my fingertips were cracked and bleeding. I made no progress despite great conditions. Now I am on the ground and can hardly contain my excitement to get back on the wall. It’s a crazy rollercoaster and I owe my family and partners a great deal for encouraging me through it all.” - Tommy Caldwell

64. “I write because I'm free,because I can,because I will. I write because I must,because I'm breathing,because I'd go crazy otherwise,because it's who I am.I write to make a statement,to share my thoughts,to discover myself,to express my ideas.But most of all, I write for future generations.I write for love. I write to inspire.I write to encourage. I write for me.” - Nadège Richards

65. “Indeed, God is always with us even when things look hopeless.” - Jennifer Hudson Taylor

66. “There's no heaven on earth. God would have to guide her through the problems.” - Jennifer Hudson Taylor

67. “I was angry at God until I came to understand that it isn't God's fault when people mistreat me. I still have my doubts at times, but I try to remember that God has given them the same free will that He's given me.” - Jennifer Hudson Taylor

68. “I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

69. “I think you'll be a great teacher," said Gary. That's his role in my life: blind encourager and ambassador of false senses of security.” - Matthew Norman

70. “It's faith that will take you through and determination that will drive you.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

71. “I don't need encouraging. I do well enough on my own.” - R.L. Mathewson

72. “God has ALREADY given you the strength you need, it's up to you to recognize that you were BORN a conqueror!” - Yvonne Pierre

73. “May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position.” - Traci LaRussa

74. “A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.” - Criss Jami

75. “There is one type of gambling which should always be encouraged. It is betting on goodness. When a person has wronged you, be good to him. If he adds insult to injury, double the bet. And keep on doubling it. You will surely win!” - Dada J.P. Vaswani

76. “Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art.” - Neil Gaiman

77. “Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.” - Steve Maraboli

78. “How does knowing 'things could be worse' than what I already deem awful make me feel any better? You mean I could sink even lower? Oh joy!” - Richelle E. Goodrich

79. “Cry if you must. Scream. Get it all out of your system, and then we'll have fun. It won't last forever, but it will keep you busy for tonight.” - Jamie McGuire

80. “In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others.” - Shelley Hendrix

81. “Your heart is who you are, all else follows. Guard your heart, Thomas. Guard your heart.” - Liam Perrin

82. “Soil, blood, seed- Let me draw strength from you. let it be enough.” - Emily Whitman

83. “Let the change begin with your choices this very moment.” - Bryant McGill

84. “We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.” - Patti Digh

85. “BELIEVE in yourself even if nobody else does!” - Stephanie Lahart