Encouraging Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Funny, Humorous, Adversity

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• The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Change, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD!

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Depression, Uplifting

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 16, 2015

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• Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Perseverance, Funny Inspirational

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.148, Lulu.com

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• Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

  Elizabeth Scott

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “Perfect You”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.

  David Elkind

  Education, Baby, Time

  David Elkind (1987). “Miseducation: preschoolers at risk”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Confidence, Memorial Day

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• In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient by the thought that what is hidden from us is not hidden from Him

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  God, Religious, Hymns

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1887). “My King, Or, Daily Thoughts for the King's Children”

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• Until you look forward to all criticism, your Work's not done.

  Byron Katie

  Criticism, Looks, Done

  Twitter post from Feb 25, 2013

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  Action is the foundational key to all success.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• If life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. And if you get up, you can stand up. And if you stand up, you can fight for your dream once again. You have something special. You have GREATNESS within you!

  Les Brown

  Dream, Fighting, Greatness

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  If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin

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• Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.

  Catherine Marshall

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way, and aligns us with a life path that is, ultimately, of benefit to ourselves and those around us.

  Deena Metzger

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Turn you situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime.

  Joyce Meyer

  Moments, Lifetime, Situation

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• You need to get ready because I have explosive blessings coming your way.

  Joel Osteen

  Blessing, Needs, Way

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• God hears and He sees, and you are not alone in your struggles. Remain firm and stable, for God has your deliverance planned.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Religious

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2015

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  Start where you are, use what you have.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "7 Most Touching Moments from Michael Sam's ESPY Arthur Ashe Award Speech" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. July 17, 2014.

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• Ask yourself, 'how long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?' I suggest you answer, 'as long as it takes.'

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Long, Answers

  Jim Rohn (2013). “7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America's Foremost Business Philosopher”, p.154, Harmony

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  Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2012

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• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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