Quotes on Encouragement

Collected by: "Optimanage.com" Team


   
  "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
   
   
  "There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there. "
Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
   
   
  "We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better."
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  "Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."(1)
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
   
   
  "Don't let the muggles get you down."
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
   
   
  "How would your life be different if...You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day...You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same."
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
   
   
  "Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be. "
Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
   
   
  "Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end."
Ed Sheeran
   
   
  "I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive."
Frida Kahlo
   
   
   
  "Don't Just
Don't just learn, experience.
Don't just read, absorb.
Don't just change, transform.
Don't just relate, advocate.
Don't just promise, prove.
Don't just criticize, encourage.
Don't just think, ponder.
Don't just take, give.
Don't just see, feel.
Don't just dream, do.
Don't just hear, listen.
Don't just talk, act.
Don't just tell, show.
Don't just exist, live."

Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
   
   
  "A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971"

E.B. White
   
   
  "Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent."
Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
   
   
  "You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat."
Joel Osteen
   
 
  "Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Early and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography