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19 Words of Encouragement

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

“One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.”
Col. Harland Sanders

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe

“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.”
Unknown

“I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.”
James Cash Penney

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.”
Unknown

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain

“Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.”
Henry Van Dyke

“Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.”
Dr. Robert Anthony

“Extraordinary struggles bring an extraordinary purpose for those who wait.”
Brianna Gazvoda

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.”
Unknown

“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.”
Sicilian Proverb

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”
Ivy Baker Priest

“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

“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
Mary Pickford

“He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.”
William James

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
Alexander Graham Bell

“Instead of giving myself reasons why I can’t, I give myself reasons why I can.”
Unknown

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  • Leticia Bracebridge June 7, 2020, 8:23 pm

    If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends, you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, then that’s the time to hold your tongue.
    (Alice Duer Miller)

  • Asogo marcus April 5, 2020, 6:42 pm

    You may miss the target but don’t stop to try.

  • Kenneth faceicon November 13, 2016, 5:05 pm

    No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

  • Nwadibia Igwe Abraham July 24, 2016, 4:33 pm

    Am Amazed With What I Reed, It really Inspiring & Motivating, Please, I beg The writer To Keep It Up.

  • vechosuyi mura-o July 9, 2016, 11:03 am

    “Life is hard to live but there are miracles, so never give up” vechosuyi Mura-o

  • alka chhetri June 6, 2016, 5:20 am

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  • Harpal Singh March 23, 2016, 2:12 am

    My quote: “If you are busy in young age you will be easy in old age.”

  • Xavier Raymond February 12, 2016, 10:43 am

    Sometimes when things don’t work in your life, it means you are a square peg in a round hole: strive to find your place of assignment and expertise in life

  • EPHRAIM September 15, 2015, 6:20 am

    I am healed so far.

  • Nandi May 31, 2015, 11:46 am

    I am so encouraged especialy now that am going to start my exams this comming tuesday

  • Skylar February 12, 2015, 10:38 pm

    “If you fall you may get up and if you get up you will never fall” – made it up myself!

  • Naej November 21, 2014, 1:42 am

    Not everything will go as you expect in life. Sometimes you need to drop expectations and go with the flow of life.

  • Mukiibj jacson November 6, 2014, 2:40 am

    This is the wonder of net

  • Eden joseph gathama August 29, 2014, 10:46 am

    GARDENER may pour 100 buckets of water, but the FRUITS arrive only in their SEASON.

    Be PATIENT, ‘Everything will Happen, in its Own Pace.”

    This has made me change my life

  • Rev.F. M. Zondi July 4, 2014, 8:45 am

    Don’t look down upon me because you don’t know where I come from.

  • Hadi June 5, 2014, 3:02 pm

    That was interesting

  • Roshnai Chaudhuri February 10, 2014, 3:48 am

    “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” – Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Gaodirelwe Mpatisang January 9, 2014, 6:33 pm

    Awesome motivation

  • Zahidah December 9, 2013, 5:41 am

    “Changing the Face” can change nothing.
    “Facing the Change” can change everything.

  • Hemanth Nayak October 22, 2013, 3:36 am

    These quotes really make my day with an awesome beginning….. I would like to add a couple:

    “We are what we repeatedly do.”

    “Excellence than, is not an act, but a habit.”

  • Anu October 18, 2013, 11:14 pm

    You laugh because I am different. I laugh because you all are the same.

  • Maryluvluv September 17, 2013, 4:38 pm

    When you are going through something hard and you wonder where DADY GOD IS, just remember the teacher is always quiet during a test. JUST TRUST IN THE LORD AND HAVE FAITH IN HIM, BECAUSE DADY WILL NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER FAILED U AND HE WILL NOT.. AND BEFORE U TAKE THE HOLY BIBLE TO READ, PLEASE KISS THE HOLY BIBLE AND SAY THANK U DADY JESUS I LOVE WITH ALL MY HEART AND SOUL.

  • Yusuf August 26, 2013, 6:44 am

    Do or Die is an old concept. Do some thing before die is a new concept.

  • Kylie August 16, 2013, 6:40 pm

    If I can make a difference, a good difference.
    If you can make a difference, a good difference.
    Together we can make an amazing difference 🙂

  • Hi There July 19, 2013, 10:56 am

    The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”

    –Randy Pausch

  • Sourabh Gambhir June 20, 2013, 9:08 am

    Best website ever.

  • Stephen June 4, 2013, 3:10 pm

    “Just remember there is someone out there that is more than happy with less than what you have.” – Unknown

  • Ashish Joshi May 6, 2013, 8:32 am

    More you press me, higher I will jump.

  • Chantha May 4, 2013, 9:03 am

    There is no greater love than a man to lay down his life for his friend.

  • Stephen April 16, 2013, 6:12 pm

    Don’t ever be afraid of change. Always remember, God will never take anything away from you without the intention of replacing it with something better.

  • Andrew Badeng March 30, 2013, 9:35 am

    “Whatever does not let you sleep is your own faults, but remember be adhere with by comparing it with the past.”

  • Efe Real March 30, 2013, 8:06 am

    What an old man sit down to see in future, even though if a child climbs up a mountain will not see, but the head of a baldhead in the barbing saloon quickens the barber to finish is work easily.

  • Babydoe March 13, 2013, 4:07 pm

    I’m truly touched.

  • Ashish kumar March 7, 2013, 7:06 am

    Truly inspiring! Thank you very much…found it at the right time 🙂

  • Chinonso Ononiwu February 27, 2013, 8:07 am

    At the point of failure is the best time to continue mindless of how many times.

  • Zainab Somalian February 13, 2013, 5:56 pm

    “I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risk to my Life.”
    Zainab somalian

  • Adegoke Adewale Ademola January 28, 2013, 8:49 am

    Never leave everything on physical effort add spiritual effort to it by praying to God for intervention

  • Adegoke Adewale Ademola January 28, 2013, 8:43 am

    Striving hard but life seems not to produce positive result u keep on trying one day life will get tired of upsetting u

  • Helen Chanchan January 23, 2013, 10:01 am

    It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

  • Francis December 24, 2012, 4:04 am

    My soul is lifted.

  • Anonymous December 22, 2012, 6:23 am

    * Wonderful in the eyes of the Lord *

    Christ is between all, to let us to see and experience how much we are wonderful in His eyes, living by the will of the God * Praise the Lord * Let the God bless, heals and protect him * Amen *

  • ANUMAH ABDULRAHEEM December 10, 2012, 1:57 pm

    Don’t get frustrated doing continous unresulted effort, sometimes the last bunch of the key open the lock. Stop asking why me?

    My dear believe that everything happens for a reason. Remember mistakes, failure and rejections are part of success. No body ever achieve any wonderful thing in this world without face the 3.

    Always be positive no how dangerous the situation…every hardship in your life will turn out to be success. So smile! Smile because you don’t own the whole world’s problem.

  • Triza December 6, 2012, 5:52 am

    Life is not always a downhill it also has uphills and valleys, helpful in strenghening the body muscles, so always be ready to use shock absobers when they arise.

  • Mystikay November 26, 2012, 11:56 am

    Nice quotes

  • Charies November 13, 2012, 9:48 pm

    Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding; In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path. ~Proverbs 3:5-6~ ^_^

  • Nawaz October 23, 2012, 3:28 am

    Awesome… mind awakening words…!!!

  • Samuel Success Moses October 18, 2012, 2:49 am

    “Success is not final, Failure is not fatal, but it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill

    Each time you succeed or fail in Life never relent in your effort to keep moving ahead because dwelling on a spot can bring mischief and regret. But always forge ahead No matter what! God Bless you.

  • Ogbaoyibo Victor September 30, 2012, 3:35 pm

    Well, life’s experience is always life’s gain because one has learnt a new tin in life that will make him or her change positively or negatively. It always depends on one’s ability.

  • Raj Bangalore September 6, 2012, 5:52 am

    Wife is good moral of your life.

  • Raj bangalore September 6, 2012, 5:49 am

    Love is a beautiful flower, it grows from the seed of the sex.

  • Raj September 6, 2012, 5:46 am

    Life is short, make it sweet.

  • Chloe critz August 16, 2012, 10:31 am

    To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world

  • Yashpaul Gupta August 16, 2012, 10:17 am

    U can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than u can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  • Yashpaul Gupta August 16, 2012, 10:16 am

    Believe in Yourself
    If you do believe in yourself, everyone else will.
    You have the ability to accomplish anything,
    but never do it at someone else’s expense.
    If you can go through life loving others,
    you will have achieved the greatest success of all.

  • Yashpaul Gupta August 16, 2012, 10:15 am

    If a drop of water falls in lake there is no identity. But if it falls on a leaf of lotus it shines like a pearl. So choose the best place where you would shine.

  • Yashpaul Gupta August 12, 2012, 8:49 am

    GARDENER may pour 100 buckets of water, but the FRUITS arrive only in their SEASON.

    Be PATIENT, ‘Everything will Happen, in its Own Pace.”

  • Yashpaul Gupta August 12, 2012, 8:48 am

    Life is very similar to a Boxing Game…..
    Defeat is not declared, when u fall down….
    It is Declared, when u refuse to Get Up again….

  • Yashpaul Gupta August 11, 2012, 10:19 am

    Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

  • Princess July 10, 2012, 2:06 pm

    I have to admit that I am a very lazy person. Working out has never been a proriity for me. But ever since I read this quote, it just dawned on me that I really have to persevere & set time to take care of my body. Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness. -Earl of Derby isn’t that just the truth? I am still lazy, but I’d rather have the time to work out than be sick.. ^_~

  • Shikha June 26, 2012, 9:25 am

    Very encouraging… your words of wisdom were really helpful… I was preety sad after my 12 result..but geared up for my future..

  • Fambo Eric Segun June 23, 2012, 12:30 pm

    I am really inspired by these words of encouragement.

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