Words Of Encouragement

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Encouragement

Quotations & Citations:

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

 

When you get rid of your negative thoughts, positive things will start to happen.

 

 

A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.

~ African Proverb

 

We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.

~ C. JoyBell C.

 

Nicholas Sparks

 

Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths.  No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

~ Mark Twain

 

Don’t let the muggles get you down.
~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

 

The bravest people are the ones who don't mind looking like cowards.

 

 

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.
~ Richard Bach

 

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move On. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

 

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.
~ Joel Osteen

 

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
~ Steve Martin

 

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.

 

Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.
~ Ed Sheeran

 

You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
~ Tyler Perry

 

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

 

Come friends, it’s not too late to seek a newer world.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

 

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Good Poems for Hard Times

 

Maturity is the moment one regains one's innocence.

 

 

Do not sit still; start moving now. In the beginning, you may not go in the direction you want, but as long as you are moving, you are creating alternatives and possibilities.
~ Rodolfo Costa

 

Temptation is not to be feared, but controlled.
~ Deborah Brodie

 

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

 

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

 

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.
~ Albert Schweitzer

No act of kindness is too small. The gift of kindness may start as a small ripple that over time can turn into a tidal wave affecting the lives of many.

 

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

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.

 

Never put off writing until you are better at it.
~ Gary Henderson

 

Sometimes the best goal you can set is just to get out of bed every day. If you can succeed at this, then other things become possible.
~ Cynthia Patterson

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

 

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell.
~ Oprah Winfrey