101 Encouraging Quotes To Inspire You To Be The BEST!

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.

We look forward to seeing you in the comments section!

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.
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– Mark Amend

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. 

– Thomas Huxley

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

– via reddit

Your focus determines your reality.

– George Lucas

 – via emiliano

Speak only if you can improve the silence.
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– Spanish proverb

Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.

– Pablo Picasso

– via Björn Berglund

32. “There are two kinds of people in this world; those who want to get things done, and those who don’t want to make mistakes.” – John Maxwell

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’ 
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– 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.
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– Barbara Baron

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
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– Robert Schuller

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.
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– Edith Wharton

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.
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 – Robin Sharma

A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.

– Jack Dempsey

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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

– via Jessica

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

– Josh Wooden

Learning never exhausts the mind. 

– Leonardo Da Vinci

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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.
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– Benjamin Disraeli 

You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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– Martin Luther King Jr

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.
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 – Vince Lombardi

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.
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– Abraham Lincoln 

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As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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– Marianne Williamson

A man cannot build a reputation on what he is going to do.
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– Henry Ford

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

– via lifehack

If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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– Thomas Jefferson

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

– CS Lewis

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.
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– Seth Godin

There are better starters than me, but I’m a strong finisher.

– Usain Bolt

– via success

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
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– Maya Angelou

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.
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– Walt Disney

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
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– General George Patton

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. 
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– Aristotle

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.
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– Unknown

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. 
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– Coco Chanel

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

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You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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– Christopher Columbus

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.
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 – Scudder Parker

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

– via lifehack

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

– Henry David Thoreau

– via behance

 Don’t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.

 – Stuart Scott

– via Lifehack

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.
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– Steven Wright

Do it with passion, or not at all.
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– Rosa Nouchette Carey

The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.

– Les Brown

Congratulations on making it all the way here, and thank you for joining us on a journey that we hope was an empowering one.

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