We can all use a bit of encouragement each day. Let these quotes that encourage be ones that will add a positive thought to your day. Share them with someone who needs to be encouraged!
You may also find encouragement in our collection of encouraging poems.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
- Poems That Inspire
The E in marriage is for encouraging and supporting each other
C. A. Lynch, Marriage Is -Marriage Poems
A friend gives encouragement, understanding, and support extending love and compassion that always brings comfort.
C. A. Lynch, Friends Give
- Poems About Giving
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure....just take off your coat and go to it; just start in to sing as you tackle the thing that "cannot be done," and you'll do it.
Edgar A. Guest, It Couldn't Be Done
- Positive Poems
Your potential is within you; yours to take - a grand adventure for you to write and make.
C. A. Lynch, Write Your Story
- Graduation Poems
It is a good morning, you know. The sun's awake, encouragement spreads with each step I take.
C. A. Lynch, Good Morning Wish
- Good Morning Poems
With every step, we'll forge our fate, through trials and triumphs, small and great
C. A. Lynch, Second Day Of The Week
- Tuesday Poems
So let us weigh our words with utmost care, for even absence of choice reveals what we bear.
C. A. Lynch, Absence Of Choice
- Poems About Choices
So let our words be warm and kind...with each encouraging line, we say, we pave the path for a good day.
C. A. Lynch, The Path For A Good Day
- Poems For A Good Day
Encouragement is like a guiding light, that lifts me up, brings strength in darkest night.
C. A. Lynch
- Appreciation Poems
When I look at you I see a lot of things; best friend, my boyfriend, my secret holder, my tear stopper, my future.
Author Unknown
- Love Poems For Him
For God does indeed have plans for us all, let us remember faith, hope, and love will never fall.
Julie Hebert, Faith, Hope And Love
- Poems On Faith
Though life can take its toll, and push you to the brink, you must rise above the strife, and refuse to let it sink.
C. A. Lynch, When Life Is Hard
- Poems About Hard Times
Your presence is so comforting, thank you with all my heart - you encouraged me when I didn't want to even start.
C. A. Lynch, Thank You
- Thank You Poems
When someone extends a helping hand, acknowledgment and gratitude should expand.
C. A. Lynch, Feeling Gratitude
- Gratitude Poems
Be encouraged, be undeterred, with perseverance, our spirits stirred.
C. A. Lynch, The Key
- Perseverance Poems
The outcome uncertain, success not guaranteed, yet we march forward, fueled by the need To challenge our limits, to break through the wall, embracing courage, standing tall.
C. A. Lynch, Courage Through Action
- Poems About Courage
Fear, once mighty, now diminished in grace, defeated and vanquished with encouragement's embrace,
C. A. Lynch, Fear, Once Mighty
- Poems About Fear
In the world of learning, let's take a seat, encourage our minds to dance to the beat.
C. A. Lynch, World Of Learning
- Poems About Learning
In a world where sparks of potential ignite...with sparks of encouragement from here or there, they soar like an eagle, driven and aware.
C. A. Lynch, Ignite Potential
- Poems About Potential
Education allows critical thinking to be found, holding the key to many mysteries around
C. A. Lynch, Knowledge That Never Runs Dry
- Poems About Education
May your day be a treasure trove of possibilities, where you unearth the treasures of joy, peace, and fulfillment that reside within you.
- Wishes For A Good Day
It doesn't take much, but oh please try; for in showing kindness, you help the other guy.
C. A, Lynch, It's So Simple
- Kindness Quotes
Encourage others today! So often the difference between success and failure is belief.
Jon Gordon
- Poems About Today
Resolve your will each day anew, turn those distant dreams into reality. Don't just dream, take action too!
C. A. Lynch, Distant Visions
- Poems About Dreams
When we feel so small in size, it's Nana's kind words that truly rise. They pick us up with encouragement strong
Julie Hebert, Nana Lends A Loving Ear
- Poems About Grandma
The wonders of motherhood are vast, bringing love that'll forever last. A joyous journey with ups and downs, but oh, the rewards they will astound!
C. A. Lynch, The Wonders Of Motherhood
- Motherhood Poems
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want
to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations.
George Bernard Shaw
- Poems On Life
Despite popular wisdom, it is not necessary to personally live through something before being able to fully understand it or guide another through it.
Ray Guarendi, Adoption
- Wisdom Quotes
Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.
Deborah Day
- Quotes That Inspire
As you spread your wings and soar to new heights, remember that your impact on our team will resonate for years to come.
C. A. Lynch
- Goodbye Poems For Coworker
On Monday's canvas, a choice is drawn, to set the stage for the week to dawn. With every action, with every thought, we shape the day, the battles fought.
C. A. Lynch, Monday's Canvas
- Poems About Monday
We must remember that in life, no guarantees are found - we'll face some highs, some lows along the way, it's our persistence and determination that'll make us stay.
C. A. Lynch, New Year Expectations
- Poems About Expectations
Change may bring discomfort and pain, but it also brings growth and gain
C. A. Lynch, Learning From Change
- Poems About Change
Sometimes we pray but God won't give consent; and even then trust His plans are meant for our greater good
C. A. Lynch, Trust His Plans
- Prayer Poems
So on Wednesdays, don't despair or wilt away, keep moving forward with purpose each day.
C. A. Lynch, Stay Positive
- Wednesday Poems
Patiently, you watched me stumble and fall, knowing that growth would come from it all.
C. A. Lynch, Dear Dad
- Dad Poems From Son
A mother's encouragement can help a child conquer their fears and achieve their dreams.
Amy E. A. Inder
- Mother Poems from Daughter
St. Patrick's Day is a reminder to us all that sometimes, the things that bring us together are stronger than the things that set us apart.
Author Unknown
- St. Patrick's Day Quotes
A teacher�s encouragement impresses in a child's mind, that a brighter future ahead, they will find.
C. A. Lynch, The Teacher's Impact
- Poems To Inspire Teachers
Retirement = A life with no meetings or presentations to give, texts and emails gone, you now get to live.
Julie Hebert, No More Commands
- Funny Retirement Poems
Friends can help defeat fear and doubt - they make us laugh when we want to pout. And when we have reasons to soar they are there to open the door.
C. A. Lynch, Friends
- Poems About Friends
From here hence may your happily ever after send a true love story that never ends!
Julie Hebert, Love Story
- Engagement Quotes
Trust in God above, He is with you full of love. Never will he leave you He is with you through and through.
B. R. Clement, Who Can We Trust
- Christian Poems
Goals you reach, never happen all at once - each challenge solved gives a sense of confidence
C. A. Lynch, I May Fall
- Poems To Inspire Students
But it's important for us to not let people demand more of us than we can handle. God knows when we are putting forth a valiant effort, and we shouldn't hope for something else than that from ourselves.
Ok Tardio, Eliminate Anxiety: The Power Of Prayer
- Prayer Quotes
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
- Overcoming Obstacles Quotes
You can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!
Anne Frank
- Kindness Quotes
I want to enjoy my life, and don't wish any weekday away. I want each day to matter to me, in some way, even if it's a small tiny way. I love my life. Everyday. That's the spirit we should convey all around us.
Akilnathan Logeswaran -
Monday Quotes
You need to balance times of extreme activity with times of relaxing and renewing yourself.
Zane Rozzi
- Time Quotes
Perseverance is the secret ingredient to transform ordinary efforts into extraordinary achievements.
Thomas R. Greensome
- Perseverance Quotes
When faced with an obstacle stay determined and keep in mind; each obstacle that you face, an answer you can find.
C. A. Lynch, Faced With An Obstacle
- Overcoming Obstacles Poems
We need to stop and remember, mistakes are part of the game. If you can learn from them, then there is no shame.
Julie Hebert, Mistakes Made
- Poems about Mistakes
Nanas are the ones who make us feel special even when we don't feel that way ourselves.
Author Unknown
- Quotes About Grandma
Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.
Carol Saline
- Quotes About Sisters
Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.
Dr. Henry Cloud
- Quotes About Courage
Grandpas are the ones who have seen it all, who have lived through the ups and downs of life, and who can offer us a little perspective when we need it most.
Author Unknown
- Grandfather Quotes
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
Henry Drummond
- Poems About Home
If you want to be an educated person follow nobody, but learn from everybody
Jan Jansen
- Quotes About Education
On this Wednesday, let your spirit rise with the sun and your determination shine as bright as the midweek sky. Author
Unknown
- Wednesday Quotes
Sunday whispers encouragement to our hearts, reminding us that even in the midst of challenges, God's love remains steadfast, and His strength is more than enough to carry us through.
C. A. Lynch
- Sunday Quotes
Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.
Kevin Smith
- Quotes About Potential
I believe the light in a home shines brightest in the kitchen , Let Your Light Shine!
Mary Jo Montanye
- Quotes About Home
Very often when I haven't faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can't. I have to rise to His faith in me.
E. Stanley Jones
- Quotes about Faith
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- Quotes About Today
Love recognises no barriers, it jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
Maya Angelo
- Marriage Love Poems For Husband
What's more encouraging than achieving the success you desire?
Ray Divine
- Quotes About Success
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
Seth Godin
- Quotes About Life That Are Funny
You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.
Joel Osteen
- Positive Quotes
Wishing is like planting a garden, it takes time, effort, and patience to see the fruits of your labor.
Author Unknown
- Quotes About Wishes
Hope is something that exists to remind us that, no matter how bad things may be, and no matter what�s happened to you in your life, that there are still good things to come.
R. L. Adams, Have a Little Hope
- Inspirational Hope Quotes
If you ask for wealth, you may not get it; for it is a small and paltry thing which the Lord may not care to
give you. But if you ask for eternal life, you shall have it; for this is a great thing and God delights to give
the greatest blessings to those who come to Him by Christ Jesus, so that what might seem to hinder
should now encourage!
Charles Spurgeon
- Quotes about God
Encouragement, fueled by gratitude, empowers us to reach new heights and embrace life's abundance.
Author Unknown
- Quotes About Gratitude
In God's love, there is no room for fear, for perfect love casts out all fear.
Rick Warren
- Quotes About God's Love
On Friday, embrace the power of now. Don't let regrets of the past or worries about the future steal the joy and potential that this moment holds.
Mel Robbins
- Friday Quotes
As the sun graces this Saturday, let the whispers of relaxation gently remind you of the deserving respite your hard work has earned.
Author Unknown
- Saturday Quotes
Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through our life without any obstacles, we would be crippled. We would not be as strong as what we could have been.
Friedrich Nietzsche
- Quotes About Life Struggles
A day is a day. It's just a measurement of time. Whether it's a good day or a bad day is up to you. It's all a matter of perception.
Donald L. Hicks
- Time Poems
A daughter may outgrow your lap but she will never outgrow your heart.
Unknown
- Quotes To My Daughter
You don�t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
Jim Rohn
- Quotes To Inspire Graduates
Retirement has been a discovery of beauty for me. I never had the time
before to notice the beauty of my grandkids, my wife, the tree outside
my very own front door. And, the beauty of time itself.
Jule Hartman
- Retirement Poems
God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the
arrival would be worthwhile.
Max Lucado
- Christian Quotes
Live each day with a vigilant eye for opportunity, knowing that they are the building blocks of a fulfilling and successful life.
Julie Hebert
- Opportunity Poems
Don't wait for retirement to be happy and
really start living. Invariably, people who try this find out that they
have waited much too long.
Author Unknown
- Retirement Sayings
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will
run even faster if encouraged.
Ovid
- Quotes To Make You Think
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
- Age Quotes
My boy, there's one way to succeed, yes, there is just one way. Give up the best that's in you to the minor part you play
Edgar A. Guest, The Old Man's Advice To His Son For Success
- Poems About Success
The Bible is very clear on life and death. Death is not the end but a beginning.
Jason A. Ponzio
- Quotes about Death
The right people encourage you: to try harder, dream bigger, do better. They bring out the most incredible parts of yourself and make you want to fight harder than ever before.
Heidi Priebe
- Dream Quotes
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat Hanh
- Quotes When Life Is Hard
Own, if you can, one of those welcome faces that bring the sunshine to life's shadowed places.
Nixon Waterman
- Quotes About Life Inspirational
Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.
Winston Churchill
- Quotes That Inspire Change
May your choices be great and your outcomes better,
May your love be real and your lovers be sincere.
May your happiness be filled with laughter and great loves,
And may your enemies be far and few between.
- Irish Blessing
There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.
Sean Connery - Scottish Actor
- Retirement Challenges
Allow what is good in your life to remain good. Don't go looking for the negative in things.
Julie Hebert
- Quotes To Inspire Students
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Washington Irving
- Wish Poems
God did not create you to be alone. He deposited skills, knowledge, and talents in someone out there who is expected to mentor you, teach you and encourage you to go high.
Israelmore Ayivor
- Poems About God
Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.
Author Unknown
- Birthday Sayings
May the happiest days of your past, be the saddest days of your future.
Author Unknown
- St. Patrick's Day Blessing
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein
- Love Sayings
May your fire never go out.
May your well never run dry.
May the Lord love us but not call us too soon.
May time never turn your head grey.
- Happy Birthday Blessings
When I am feeling low all I have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns.
Charles Bukowski
- Pet Loss Quotes
I wish you health.
I wish you wealth.
I wish only the best.
May your life be blessed.
- Wedding Blessing Poems
You see, it's simple, really. A change took place within the heart of one boy, all because of one teacher, who cared.
Villamor Quebral; Venice Quebral, Take A Moment To Stop And Smell The Roses
- Quotes To Inspire Teachers
You can always be more, get more and learn more. Don�t let your failure pull you down rather use it to climb higher.
Hernert O Nobleman
- Failure Quotes
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
- Disappointment Quotes
May the clouds in your life be only a background for a lovely sunset.
Author Unknown
- Wedding Toasts
She�d always believed in me, encouraged me. I could trust her with my dreams and hopes.
Erik Orton
- Quotes About Mom
When your focus aligns with your passion, even the ordinary becomes extraordinary.
- Quotes About Focus
When you think no one sees you and you are so clouded in your messy state that you begin to think maybe just maybe even GOD is fed up. Know this: He sees the tears, collects them, pays you double for them, fortifies you with encouragement even through them and He will lift up your spirit.
TemitOpe Ibrahim
- Sympathy Poems
Don't let yesterday's sorrows stop you from tomorrow's dreams. They may not come right away, but that doesn't mean you should stop dreaming.
Julie Hebert
- Sympathy Quotes
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall: a mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Mom Poems
Be happy with yourself to encourage others.
Debasish Mridha
- Happy Poems
Even the most negative person can find something to be thankful for. They
just might need to dig deeper and come out of their comfort zone.
Author Unknown
- Thankful For Poems
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn
- Marriage Quotes
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
W. Clement Stone
- Quotes About Choices
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.
Orison Swett Marden
- Opportunity Quotes
The "luck" that I believe in is that which comes with work.
Eben E. Rexford, Success Equals Hard Work
- Work Quotes
encouragement
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people, the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.
Charles Schwab
- Appreciation Quotes
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it, that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie
- Quotes About Fear
With God, you are stronger than your struggles and more fierce than your fears. God provides comfort and strength to those who trust in Him. Be encouraged, keep standing, and know that everything's going to be alright.
Germany Kent
- Sympathy Quotes
To build up courage, encourage others.
Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu
- All Occasions
Make it your mission to encourage everyone who crosses your path.
Skip Prichard
- Best Poems
May we continue to encourage one another, so that we will increase in strength and in wisdom.
Lailah Gifty Akita
- Best Wishes To You
