201 Words of Encouragement And Strength For A Friend

 

Positive Words of Encouragement And Strength For Your Friends & Kids

 

“Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live… at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR FREEDOM!”

– William Wallace

Positive Words of Encouragement And Strength For Friends & Kids: Encouragement and motivation – these two are very powerful words in the English dictionary as both play a crucial role in our life, especially when we are going through rough times. Often hardships of life throw us into that state when we feel a dire need of immediate encouragement.

So today we have collected some great words of encouragement that will give you enough confidence and courage to face the challenges life brings for you. When everything seems to be going wrong, these powerful words of wisdom can remind you how strong you are all on your own.

We believe these encouraging words will remind you to think without limits and never doubt your wildest thoughts. Remember, people will shake you and they will break, but how strong you stand will make you. So never lose hope if you are struggling today to build a strong foundation for a better future.

 

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It’s not just in some of us, it is in everyone and as we let our own lights shine. We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

– Marianne Williamson

Whether a person is going through a major problem in his life or merely losing confidence in himself, sincere yet straightforward and uplifting words of encouragement will undoubtedly improve anyone’s perspective in life.

– Anonymous

Don’t listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it’s what you want to do and it’s within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

– Jake Gyllenhaal

Those who keep their minds open to new concepts – those whose cups are always empty – will always move to higher levels of achievement and fulfillment.

– Robin Sharma

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal.

– Jerome Fleishman

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. Logic will get you from one point to another. But Imagination will take you everywhere.

– Albert Einstein

You and I need to be the decision-makers in our own lives and careers. It is also our responsibility to allow and encourage others to do the same.

– Jay Rifenbary

Competitive spirit is still at a premium. The more you win, the better you play, the more money you make, so they all have that in mind.

– Wayne Gretzky

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top.

– O. J. Simpson

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

– Albert Einstein

Mind over matter. Weak-minded people are easily influenced. Strong-minded people, you can’t break their will.

– Lee Boyd Malvo

Sometimes you face difficulties you’re doing something wrong, but because you’re doing something right.

– Joel Osteen

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

– James A. Froude

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can, hold on.

– James Frey

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

– Audrey Hepburn

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

– Dennis Waitley

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

– Albert Einstein

I’ve decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that’s all I can do.

– Haruki Murakami

Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

– Muhammad Ali

Strength is your inner will, not your physical capacity.

– Mahatma Gandhi

You are what you do, not what you say you will do.

– Carl Gustav Jung

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Best Uplifting Words of Encouragement For Men And Women

The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge – a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright, and be strong. May you stay forever young.

– Bob Dylan

Empower yourself and realize the importance of contributing to the world by living your talent. Work on what you love. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

– Catharina Bruns

What adrenaline is able to chemically and physiologically do for the body, encouragement is able to emotionally and psychologically do for the soul.

– Mark Chanski

Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people’s opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!

– Steve Maraboli

If any man tells you, he wants to succeed in life, yet hates labor, is a liar. No noteworthy success is possible without labor.

– Pawan Pratap Singh

Just remember that a mountain is not taken down in one big scoop but is done by taking one small chuck away at a time.

– Byron Pulsifer

Use your imagination and believe in what you are doing, and then you will be able to make a difference in this world.

– Anonymous

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so, does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

– Leonardo da Vinci

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality in the mind next to honor.

– Aristotle

Difficulties in your life don’t come to destroy you, but to help you realize your hidden potential.

– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.

– Lolly Daskal

There are some things you can’t learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.

– Norman Douglas

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

– Albert Schweitzer

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

– Jim Rohn

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

– Mark Twain

The success you see others experiencing is rarely as sexy as it appears to be.

– James Clear

The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.

– John C. Maxwell

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

– Richard B. Sheridan

Encouragement is like a pebble thrown into the water.

– David Jeremiah

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Inspirational Words of Encouragement And Strength With Pictures

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

– Denis Waitley

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

– Walt Disney

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

– Clay P. Bedford

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied our best to the job at hand.

– Vince Lombardi

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

– Tennessee Williams

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

– Jonathan Harnisch

When you lose everything, you get depressed if you don’t step back and start appreciating what you do have.

– Paul and Tracey McManus

Bad habits are like the hole in the bottom of a boat, which will sink the boat one day, whether it is small or big.

– Kalidasa

Action and Determination are two habits you must develop at the forefront of all Success.

– Machi Block

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

– Thomas Jefferson

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

– Coco Chanel

Life is, at times, tough. And all we need to do is to prove that we are tougher than it.

– Sanhita Baruah

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

– Mark Twain

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

– Maya Angelou

The will of the strong will never be shaken by doubts of the weak.

– Anonymous

The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something.

– Naval Ravikant

Encouragement helps people to change their stories.

– Michael McKinney

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

– Edmund Hillary

It never gets better, you just get better at it.

– Peter Dunne

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Words of Encouragement For A Friend When Life Is Hard

Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles. Your decision to be, have, and do something out of the ordinary entails facing difficulties and challenges that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

– Brian Tracy

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.

– Barbara Bloom

It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

– J. K. Rowling

Be thankful for what you have and you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

– Oprah Winfrey

Yes, I am a strong person, but every now and then I also need someone to take my hand and say everything will be alright.

– Anonymous

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing–that’s why we recommend it daily.

– Zig Ziglar

Hold up the mirror and see yourself the way you really are, rather than as we like to think we are.

– Alister McGrath

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

You can do no more than you believe you can. You can be no more than you believe you are.

– Norman Vincent Peale

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

– Jawaharlal Nehru

But it is better to follow even the shadow of the best than to remain content with the worst.

– Henry Van Dyke

Be miserable or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

– Wayne Dyer

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

– Napoleon Hill

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day’s insolence.

– Elias Canetti

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

– Oprah Winfrey

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

– Leonardo da Vinci

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

– Joseph Campbell

Rise and rise again until lambs become lions.

– Robin Hood

It will never be perfect. Make it work.

– Anonymous

 

Short Positive Words of Encouragement For Kids With Images

Just because you fail once, it doesn’t mean you are going to fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always Believe in Yourself because if you don’t then who will? So keep your head high, keep your chin up and most importantly Keep Smiling because life is a beautiful thing and there is so much to smile about.

– Marilyn Monroe

Repentance is change, Conversion is change, Perfection is change. All this is in complete harmony with the desires of our Heavenly Father and the loving pleadings of the Redeemer.

– Jacob De Jager

Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.

– Joel Osteen

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

– Mahatma Gandhi

It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.

– Shannon L. Alder

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

– Robertson Davies

Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.

– Anonymous

Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference.

– Robert Frost

Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change.

– Bangambiki Habyarimana

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

– Arnold Palmer

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

– Peace Pilgrim

A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

– John Burroughs

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

– Joyce Brothers

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

– William James

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

– John Wooden

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

– Dalai Lama

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

– Stephen R. Covey

Never complain and never explain.

– Benjamin Disraeli

Success is a poor teacher.

– Robert Kiyosaki

 

Great Words of Encouragement That Will Inspire You To Succeed

An event that appears to be a tragedy to one might reveal the seeds of unlimited opportunity to another. What really separates people who are habitually upbeat and optimistic from those who are consistently miserable is how the circumstances of life are interpreted and processed.

– Robin Sharma

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome, and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

– Judith Hill

Nothing in life has happened to you. It’s happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.

– Joel Osteen

We all need hope, to know that despair doesn’t have to be the end of the story, that God doesn’t want it to be the end of our story.

– Alison Young

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

– E. E. Cummings

Look at life with more playful eyes. Don’t be serious. Don’t pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being.

– Osho

You can begin again anytime you want and forge a new life path. You can take the wheel and change the course of your life.

– Robyn L. Gobin

In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

– Warren Buffet

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

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

– Vince Lombardi

It is important to surround yourself with people who lift you up, encourage you, share your vision and inspire you.

– Les Brown

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible but also for what we do not do.

– Moliere

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

– Earl Nightingale

Just remember to never doubt yourself, we are all capable of amazing things.

– Rob Cristopher

Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you’d like to act.

– Bob Dylan

Set your goals high enough to inspire you and low enough to encourage you.

– Steve Jobs

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with times.

– Niccolo Machiavelli

Don’t be afraid to bite on a giant, learn from the mosquito.

– Bangambiki Habyarimana

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

– Robert H. Schuller

Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly.

– Confucius

 

Words of Encouragement And Strength For Ambitious Women

You are ok. You are, in fact, more than that! You are worthwhile! You are worth it! YOU are worthy! Even when you do not feel like it, you are! Be strong and courageous! We all have a different journey, and each journey is unique! Your journey is uniquely beautifully YOURS! Embrace it!

– Ashley Howard Nelson

Even a strong woman needs a shoulder to lean on, someone who’ll Just listen as tears roll down to her face, and remind her that no matter how far she’s fallen, she’ll get up again, stronger and wiser than before.

– Anonymous

And to all of the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.

– Hillary Clinton

So humbled and honored to be a part of She The People’s Digital Women Awards. I believe we all must have an authentic brand identity and as an entrepreneur that’s my aim.

– Neha Jhunjhunwala

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, But it does not make me angry, it merely astonishes me, how can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.

– Zora Neale Hurston

We try to teach women how to be strong, how to believe in themselves, how to make themselves happy, as opposed to pleasing someone else first.

– Lisa Lopes

We do not have to remain stuck in our trials! We go through them and as daughters of the King, we can rise in the midst of the dark, shaking moments.

– Holly Wagner

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

– Diane Ackerman

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

– George A. Sheehan

It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.

– Steve Maraboli

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

– Marge Piercy

It is preposterous to take to heart that which you should throw over your shoulders.

– Baltasar Gracián

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

– Susan Faludi

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.

– Ruth E. Renkl

She is clothed in strength & dignity and she laughs without fear of the feature.

– Proverbs 31:25

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.

– John Wooden

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

– Will Rogers

You are never given anything in this world that you can’t handle.

– Anonymous

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

– Walt Disney

Success has always been a great liar.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Positive Words of Encouragement To Motivate A Sick Person

Remember, words are great influencers. Words are the verbal embodiment of power. By filling your mind with words of hope, you become hopeful. By filling your mind with words of kindness, you become kind. By filling your mind with thoughts of courage, you become courageous. Words have power.

– Robin Sharma

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

– Douglas MacArthur

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

– Phillips Brooks

Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is.

– Anne Frank

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

– Michel Montaigne

When something bad happens, you have three choices: You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or let it strengthen you.

– Theodor Seuss Geisel

Strong women wear their pain like they do stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it.

– Harriet Morgan

You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

– Brian Tracy

If we can’t alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

– Peter A. David

A man makes himself more successful by cultivating great thoughts and good habits.

– Pawan Pratap Singh

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

– Victor Hugo

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will’.

– Charles Dickens

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

– Christopher Morley

Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.

– Stephen Richards

It’s not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

– J. R. R Tolkien

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

– Steve Jobs

You are much more than what you think you are.

– Abhishek Ratna

Success is a mindset, not a trophy.

– Lance Allred

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Words of Encouragement For A Friend To Build A Better Future

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate, and to humble.

– Yehuda Berg

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

– Helen Keller

Each time we make a difference in someone else’s life, no matter how small, it will encourage them to do the same for others. And each time that happens, we all become a stronger force for good.

– Thomas E. Pierce

Self-mastery and the consistent care of one’s mind, body, and soul are essential to finding one’s highest self and living the life of one’s dreams.

– Robin Sharma

There are three solutions to every problem: Accept it, change it, or leave it. If you can’t accept it, change it. If you can’t change it, leave it.

– Anonymous

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principles contain it or stand against it.

– Jane Smiley

Don’t go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

– Benjamin Franklin

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

– Orson Scott Card

A heart is a muscle..and what do muscles do when they are torn? They grow back Stronger!

– Anonymous

Sometimes, things need to change, because there just isn’t any way for them to stay the same.

– Jay Crownover

The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

– Bono

To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious.

– Kevin Michel

If God wanted the universe to be imperfect, He would not have created you.

– Matshona Dhliwayo

My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.

– Al Lewis

Anything does not exist until it is created. You create it.

– Bangambiki Habyarimana

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

– Benjamin Franklin

The true success is the person who invented himself.

– Al Goldstein

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

– Jim Rohn

Mediocrity always measures success by money.

– Thibaut Courtois

Success can’t be forced.

– Loretta Young

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Powerful Words of Encouragement To Awaken The Winner Inside You

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

– Socrates

Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all the fears you have overcome.

– N. R. Walker

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

– Charles Dickens

One stone is enough to break a glass. One sentence is enough to break a heart. One smile is enough to fall in love and one opportunity is enough to make life successful.

– Anonymous

Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.

– Ezra Taft Benson

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

– Bruce F. Barton

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

– T. Harv Eker

Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure.

– Napoleon Hill

The toughest thing about success is that you have got to keep on being a success.

– Irving Berlin

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

– Bertrand Russell

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.

– Gerard Way

The toughest battle you’ll ever fight in your life will be the battle with yourself.

– Anonymous

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

– Elbert Hubbard

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

– C. S. Lewis

Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot but make it hot by striking.

– William B. Sprague

People who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it.

– George Bernard Shaw

All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles.

– Swami Vivekananda

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

– Confucius

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

– Michael Korda

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

– Dr. Seuss

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

– Henry David Thoreau

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Thanks for reading these positive and uplifting words of encouragement quotes. Whenever you find yourself disheartened and exhausted in the struggles of life, use these quotes to stay motivated as they hold within them one of the greatest keys to success: positive energy! You can also share your favorite encouraging words on social media or send them to a friend who needs instant encouragement.

“A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.”

– John C. Maxwell