Encouraging Quotes - Page 20

• There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiring, Happiness

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• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Perseverance, Determination

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• Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting

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• God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Change, Encouragement, Real

  Anne Graham Lotz (2009). “God's Story”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Strength, Being Strong

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• Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

  Thomas Paine

  Encouragement, Motivation, Effort

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• The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.

  David Brin

  Inspirational, Positive, Time

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• I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves, you don't need a lot of talent.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Attitude, Team

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• If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Believe, Winning

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• Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Summer, Spring, Winter

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• He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

  William James

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Unique

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.7, 谷月社

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• I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Football, Believe

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• There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good old friend.

  Katharine Butler Hathaway

  Encouragement, Old Friends

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• I can, therefore I am.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ability

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• I can almost picture the disciples faces. "No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you!

  David Platt

  Blood, Asking, Movement

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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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• You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Encouragement

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• This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Song, Play

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• We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Battle, Trying

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• 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 Marie Moning

  Encouragement, Fall, Dresses

  Karen Marie Moning (2008). “Faefever: Fever Series”, p.115, Delacorte Press

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• There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.

  Stephen King

  Islands, Sky, Ideas

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• In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
  In the midst of the storm - calm.
  In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
  In the many roads - a certain choice.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Strength, Choices, Heartfelt

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• If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again-only this time with more wisdom. But once he has started, a warrior of the light perseveres until the end.

  Paulo Coelho

  Perseverance, Warrior, Winning

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