100+ Strong Encouraging Quotes to Boost Motivation & Success

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill

"It always seems impossible until it's done." – Nelson Mandela

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." – Walter Elliot

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." – Japanese Proverb

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Confucius

"Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence." – Calvin Coolidge

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." – Vince Lombardi

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated." – Maya Angelou

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." – Samuel Johnson

"Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time." – Rumi

"Strength does not come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't." – Rikki Rogers

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th." – Julie Andrews

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." – Nelson Mandela

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." – E.E. Cummings

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." – John Wayne

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." – Nelson Mandela

"The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all." – Meg Cabot

"Do one thing every day that scares you." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision." – Winston Churchill

"Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen." – Brené Brown

"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return." – Margaret Mitchell

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently." – Maya Angelou

"Be brave enough to break your own rules." – Mandy Hale

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there." – Theodore Roosevelt

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right." – Henry Ford

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." – Buddha

"If you can dream it, you can achieve it." – Zig Ziglar

"Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth." – Unknown

"Don’t let anyone tell you what you can’t do. Not even me." – Rocky Balboa

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." – Zig Ziglar

"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." – Peter T. Mcintyre

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." – A.A. Milne

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." – Suzy Kassem

"You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing just as you are." – Unknown

"Fear is only as deep as the mind allows." – Japanese Proverb

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear." – George Addair

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain." – Mark Twain

"Fear has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run, or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours." – Zig Ziglar

"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." – Michael Bublé

"You gain power over your fears by facing them." – Mel Robbins

"Fear is a liar." – Kanye West

"What would you do if you weren’t afraid?" – Sheryl Sandberg

"Action is the antidote to fear." – Tony Robbins

"Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try." – Michael Jordan

"The best way out is always through." – Robert Frost

"The capacity to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage." – Arie de Geus

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." – Mahatma Gandhi

"Growth begins when we accept our weaknesses." – Jean Vanier

"We are all learners, and life is our classroom." – Mary Lou Retton

"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you." – B.B. King

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out." – Robert Collier

"Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong." – Mandy Hale

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." – Aristotle

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try." – John F. Kennedy

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." – Henry Ford

"Learning never exhausts the mind." – Leonardo da Vinci

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." – Maya Angelou

"Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up." – Mary Holloway

"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient." – Steve Maraboli

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance." – Jodi Picoult

"Resilience is not about bouncing back, but forward." – Unknown

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." – J.K. Rowling

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." – Khalil Gibran

"Scars are tattoos with better stories." – Unknown

"Tough times never last, but tough people do." – Dr. Robert Schuller

"Resilience is not about avoiding the storm, but learning how to dance in the rain." – Vivian Greene

"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm is all about." – Haruki Murakami

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." – Maya Angelou

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up." – Vince Lombardi

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." – Chinese Proverb

"Don’t wait. The time will never be just right." – Napoleon Hill

"Dreams don’t work unless you do." – John C. Maxwell

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe

"Ideas are worthless unless executed." – Paul Graham

"Action is the foundational key to all success." – Pablo Picasso

"A year from now, you may wish you had started today." – Karen Lamb

"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned." – Peter Marshall

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Do something today that your future self will thank you for." – Unknown

"Motion creates emotion. Action breeds confidence." – Brendon Burchard

"You don’t have to be ready. You just have to begin." – Unknown

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." – Marcus Aurelius

"Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't." – Rikki Rogers

"The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us, but those who win battles we know nothing about." – Jonathan Harnisch

"She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails." – Elizabeth Edwards

"There is a strength within me that no obstacle can shake." – Unknown

"My scars remind me of who I am, not who I was." – Unknown

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice." – Bob Marley

"I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become." – Carl Jung

"The wound is the place where the light enters you." – Rumi

"I am not broken. I am breaking through." – Unknown

"Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming what you once thought you couldn't." – Unknown

"I carry my past with me, but it doesn’t carry me." – Unknown

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness." – Desmond Tutu

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." – Helen Keller

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." – Walt Whitman

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul." – Emily Dickinson

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." – Alexander Graham Bell

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise." – Victor Hugo

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." – J.K. Rowling

"Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure." – Rumi

"Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day." – Alice Morse Earle

"Positivity is a choice. Choose wisely." – Unknown

"Sunshine all the time makes a desert." – Arabian Proverb

"Believe in the beauty of your dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." – Mark Twain

"Purpose is the reason we strive, not just survive." – Simon Sinek

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you." – Oprah Winfrey

"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." – Howard Thurman

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work." – Steve Jobs

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." – Pablo Picasso

"Passion is the genesis of genius." – Tony Robbins

"Purpose gives life a direction. Passion gives it fuel." – Unknown

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." – Dolly Parton

"When you know your why, you can endure any how." – Friedrich Nietzsche

"Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Play with abandon." – Mary Anne Radmacher

"Let your passion be louder than your fear." – Jen Sincero