Encouraging Words Quotes

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that 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

Love, Inspirational, Motivational

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

"Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Corrie Ten Boom

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Helen Keller

Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Vince Lombardi

Love, Inspirational, Life

Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Why Not Try God?", Chapter 6 (newspaper serial) in St. Petersburg Times, sect. 2, p. 3, news.google.com. January 25, 1936.

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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

Benjamin Spock

Positive, Family, Trust

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

"Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Wayne Dyer

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 12, 2010

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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Henry Ford

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Ayn Rand

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Audre Lorde

Inspirational, Strength, Success

"The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Unknown

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Wally Amos

Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

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