Whether you’re reaching for a new target after an achievement, working hard or trying to stay focused, we know the struggle gets real. So brace yourself, fellow wanderers, for you are about to embark on a different kind of journey filled with the best encouraging quotes possible.
A journey that visits the thoughts and observations of people across time – the people that changed history and the world.
Athletes and scientists, entrepreneurs and philosophers, and the revolutionary women and men that pushed the boundaries of change, and of themselves – minds that tangled with perception, and motivation, and stood strong in the face of tough times and tough decisions.
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101 Encouraging Quotes to Inspire and Engage
Don’t be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.
– Orrin Woodward
Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears.
– Bobby Unser
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
– Will Rogers
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
– William Butler Yeats
Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.
– Mark Amend
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
– Thomas Huxley
You don’t drown by falling in water; you drown by staying there.
– Robert Collier
The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.
– Matty Mullens
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action
– Benjamin Disraeli
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
– George Addair
Your focus determines your reality.
– George Lucas
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Your focus determines your reality.
– George Lucas
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Speak only if you can improve the silence.
– Spanish proverb
Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.
– Pablo Picasso
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’
– Mary Anne Radmacher
Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
– Coco Chanel (via lifehack)
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
– Paulo Coelho
Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change.
– Barbara Baron
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
– Robert Schuller
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It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
– Babe Ruth
When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge.
– Terry Bradshaw
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.
– Edith Wharton
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Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up.”
– Michael Jordan
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Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.
– Robin Sharma
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A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.
– Jack Dempsey
45. “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” – Muhammad Ali
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
– B.B. King
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The work you do when you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.
– Jessica Hische
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Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
– Josh Wooden
Learning never exhausts the mind.
– Leonardo Da Vinci
– via Lifehack
Every now and then it’s good to stop climbing and appreciate the view from right where you are.
– Lori Deschene
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
– Stephen R Covey
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
– Martin Luther King Jr
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The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.
– Vince Lombardi
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Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
– Charles Dickens
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
– Robert Collier
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
– Abraham Lincoln
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As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
– Marianne Williamson
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A man cannot build a reputation on what he is going to do.
– Henry Ford
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If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.
– Mario Andretti
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.
– Tommy Lasorda
Work gives you meaning and purpose, and life is empty without it.
– Stephen Hawking
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If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
– Thomas Jefferson
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
– CS Lewis
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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.
– Mortimer Adler
Whether you think you can, or you can’t – either way you’re right.
– Henry Ford
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Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
– Seth Godin
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There are better starters than me, but I’m a strong finisher.
– Usain Bolt
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There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
– Maya Angelou
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The individual who says it is not possible should get out of the way of those doing it.
– Tricia Cunningham
You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.
– Walt Disney
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I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
– General George Patton
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
– Aristotle
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique; just like everone else.
– Margaret Mead
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Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.
– John C. Maxwell
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The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.
– Benny Lewis
Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
– Joshua J Marine
A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.
– Unknown
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We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.
– J.K. Rowling
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Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible. Nothing unattainable.
– Kara Goucher
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.
– Oscar Wilde
What seems hard now will one day be your warm up.
– Unknown
Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.
– Unknown
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You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the further you get.
– Michael Phelps
– via entrepreneur
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
– Pele
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
– Coco Chanel
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There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either in or you’re out. There is no such thing as life in-between.
– Pat Riley
Do one thing every day that scares you. Taking risks takes practice.
– John Shumate
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
– Christopher Columbus
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Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.
– Oprah Winfrey
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Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
– Arnold Palmer
People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be.
– Scudder Parker
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
– Lao Tzu
The 3 C’s in life: Choice, chance, change. You must make the choice, to take the chance, if you want anything in life to change.
– Unknown
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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
– Henry David Thoreau
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Don’t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.
– Stuart Scott
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Perfection is boring. Getting better is where all the fun is.
– Dragos Roua
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When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.
– Steven Wright
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Do it with passion, or not at all.
– Rosa Nouchette Carey
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The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.
– Les Brown
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