Encouraging Quotes
"I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back." — Ann Richards- "All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love." — Johnny Cash
- "I don't go by the rule book…I lead from the heart, not the head." — Princess Diana
- "The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation." — Eudora Welty
- "The time is always right to do what is right." — Martin Luther King Jr.
- "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." — Audrey Hepburn
- "Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life." — Jackie Robinson
- "If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." — Dolly Parton
- "Despite the forecast, live like it's spring." — Lilly Pulitzer
- "If I'd have done all the things I was supposed to have done, I'd be really tired." — Willie Nelson
- "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." — Napoleon Hill
- "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." — Margaret Thatcher
- "Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." — Nido Qubein
- "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." — Zig Ziglar
- "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make." — Les Brown
- "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." — Mark Twain
- "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." — William Faulkner
- "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose." — Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go
- "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." — Jackie Robinson
- "The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day." — Julia Roberts
- "Now it's the little moments that stop me in my tracks, because that's what life is all about." — Joanna Gaines
Courage and Strength
- "Life is short, but it is wide. This too shall pass." — Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow." ― Mary Anne Radmacher
- "It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit." ― J.R.R. Tolkien
- "Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ― John Wayne
- "Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody." ― Justin Cronin
- "It's your life; you don't need someone's permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart." ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
- "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." — Walt Disney
- "When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable." — Walt Disney
- "Everything you want is on the other side of fear." — Jack Canfield
- "The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting." — Walt Disney
- "Do you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears?" — Unknown
- "You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." — Marcus Aurelius
- "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." — Oprah Winfrey
- "All serious daring starts from within." — Eudora Welty
- "You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try." — Dolly Parton
- "It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow." — Ralph Ellison
- "Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground." — Rosa Parks
- "You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." — William Faulkner