Looking for short quotes and words of encouragement? We have rounded up the best collection of short encouraging quotes, sayings, captions, one-liners, status messages, (with images and pictures) to uplift your energies and spread positive vibes.
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Positive words are powerful. They can impact your mindset and some positive inspirational words early morning can set the right tone for the rest of the day!
The short encouraging quotes are great and relevant for men, women, and students, for your work, fitness, and everything where you feel you need daily motivation.
Short Encouraging Quotes
- “Never give up.”
- “You are beautiful.”
- “Prove them wrong.”
- “Hey warrior, keep going.”
- “Your only limit is your mind.”
- “Say ‘YES’ to new adventures.”
- “You are gold, baby. Solid gold.”
- “Take the risk or lose the chance.”
- “You are amazing. Remember that.”
- “Everything that you are is enough.”
- “You are your home.” – Erin Hanson
- “This too shall pass.”- Persian Sufi Poets
- “You get what you give.” – Jennifer Lopez
- “If you stumble, make it part of the dance.”
- “Impossible is for the unwilling.” – John Keats
- “No pressure, no diamonds.” – Thomas Carlyle
- “People can and do change.” – Earl Nightingale
- “Spread love everywhere you go.” – Mother Teresa
- “You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle
- “When you get tired, learn to rest, not quit.” – Banksy
- “Fall seven times, stand up eight.”- Japanese Proverb
- “The best revenge is massive success.”- Frank Sinatra
- “You never fail until you stop trying.” – Albert Einstein
- “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.” – Rumi
- “Limit your “always” and your “nevers.”” – Amy Poehler
- “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
- “Always believe something wonderful is about to happen.”
- “Light tomorrow with today!” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong
- “When you get to your wits end, you will find, God lives there.”
- “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
- “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”- Suzy Kaseem
- “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” – J.K. Rowling
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
- “Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” – Hafez
- “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
- “Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It’s all funny.” – Joan Rivers
- “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Never regret something that once made you smile.”- Amber Deckers
- “The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” – E. E. Cummings
- “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball
- “Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle.” – Jon Acuff
- “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” – Kahlil Gibran
- “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Maya Angelou
- “It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.” – Confucius
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
- “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller
- “God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.”- Henry Beecher
- “Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.” – Lindsey Vonn
- “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis
- “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” – Epictetus
- “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” – Carol Burnett
- Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD! – Psalm 31:24 (Bible Verse) Spiritual
- “And you ask ‘What if I fall?’ Oh but my darling, what if you fly?” –Erin Hanson
- “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.”
- “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’M POSSIBLE!’” – Audrey Hepburn
- “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” – Dr. Henry Link
- “Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
- “Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.” – Robert H. Schuller
- “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler
- “Not every day is good but there is something good in every day.” – Alice Morse Earl
- “It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.” – Ella Fitzgerald
- “I have standards I don’t plan on lowering for anybody, including myself.” – Zendaya
- “Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”- Edmund Burke
- “Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyway.” – Glennon Doyle Melton
- “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”- Franklin D Roosevelt
- “Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.” – Rosa Parks
- “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
- “I’m going to make everything around me beautiful – that will be my life.” – Elsie de Wolfe
- “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.”- Charles Swindoll
- “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”- Richard Bach
- “God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.”- John Aughey
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
- “No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” – Demi Lovato
- “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
- “Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan
- “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” – Maya Angelou
- “Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”- Edwin Markham
- “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”- Corrie Boom
- “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller
- “A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.”
- “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman
- “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss
- “Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” – Malala Yousafzai
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
- “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen
- “By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” – Edwin Elliot
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”- Henry David Thoreau
- “Inhale, exhale, it is well, it is well. All of this is a part of the story you will tell.” – Morgan Harper Nichols
- “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
- “What is for you and meant for your good will surely come in it’s due time. Be true. Be patient. Be faithful.”
- “I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect, they are much more interesting.” – Marc Jacobs
- “When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.”- Les Brown
- “Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you see can inspire you.” – Grace Coddington
- “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
- “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
- “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality in the mind next to honor.”- Aristotle
- “It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you haven’t spent a night with a mosquito.” – African Proverb
- “Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.” –Bob Goff
- “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” – Og Mandino
- “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
- “Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy
- “Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.”- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” – Mandy Hale
- “If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”- Flavia
- “If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”- David Allen
- “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”- Stephen King
- “For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.” – Jack Canfield
- “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” – William James
- “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” – Mae Jemison
- “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald
- “We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.” – Ray Bradbury
- “It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.”- Vince Lombardi
- “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.” – Buddha
- “Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is 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
- “For what it’s worth it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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