We all could use a little encouragement from time to time, so here’s 99 encouraging messages to give you a lift in your day.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
-General Omar N. Bradley
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
-Lucille Ball
You have the power to hurt yourself or to benefit yourself. If you do not choose to be happy no one can make you happy. Do not blame God for that! And if you choose to be happy, no one can make you unhappy. It is we who make of life what it is.
-Paramahansa Yogananda
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
-Vincent Van Gogh
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
-J. Donald Walters
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it.
-Peter Drucker
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
-Henry Miller
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.
-John Foster Dulles
All things are difficult before they are easy.
-John Norley
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
-Epicurus
I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.
-Jana Stanfied
Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.
-Victoria Holt
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
-Lao Tzu
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
-Colin Powell
Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
-Corita Kent
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
-Herbert Spencer
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
-Author Unknown
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
The question is not what a man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.
-John Ruskin
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
-Charles R. Swindoll
Helping people grow and achieve their dreams is the fastest route to success; both theirs and yours.
-T. Harv Eker
One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
-G. E. Lessing
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
-Lewis Carroll
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
-Ken Keyes Jr.
The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.
-Rebecca Beard
The one thing that matters is the effort.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
-Kurt Lewin
We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
-Margaret Mead
The amount of love you show to your neighbor reflects how much you love yourself.
-Tessy Igbinoghene
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
-Germaine Greer
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.
-Claude M. Bristol
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.
-Lyndon B. Johnson
We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have.
-James R. Ball
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
-Babe Ruth
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
-Mary Frances Berry
Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill.
-Christopher Parker
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
-Longfellow
Problems are a sign of life.
-Normal Vincent Peale
If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.
-Coleman Hawkings
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.
-Brian Tracy
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
-Anita Roddick
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
-John Stuart Mill
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
-Booker T. Washington
If you always give you will always have.
-Chinese Proverb
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The beginning is always today.
-Mary Wollstonecraft
True commitment begins when we reach the point of not knowing how we can possibly go on, and decide to do it anyway.
-Author Unknown
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
-Sydney Smith
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.
-Ben Franklin
Don’t start living tomorrow, tomorrow never arrives. Start working on your dreams and ambitions today.
-Unknown
To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
-Dorothea Brande
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
-Burk Hudson
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
-Winston Churchill
One thing we can do is make the choice to view the world in a healthy way. We can choose to see the world as safe with only moments of danger rather than seeing the world as dangerous with only moments of safety.
-Deepak Chopra
I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days or great days.
-Lance Armstrong
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The little things are infinitely the most important.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-Aristotle
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
-Dale Carnegie
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
-William Arthur Ward
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect it’s successful outcome.
-William James
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
-Mitch Albom
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
-Douglas H. Everett
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
-Arnold Bennett
When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you.
-Tin Cup
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
-Bernard Meltzer
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein
Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
-Alonzo Newton Benn
Laugh like nothings funny, sing like no one can hear, breathe like your nose is runny, dance like its all your fear, shout to every star, and remember cuz its not just your past, let your soul be carried a far, and then you’ll be able to live like its your last.
-Kaitlyn Myers
For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.
-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
-Joel Hawes
Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others… but to get ahead of ourselves.
-Thomas L. Monson
Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
-Brian Tracy
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
-Winston Churchill
Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.
-William Arthur Ward
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
-Frank A. Clark
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
-Buddha
You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
-Arthur Ashe
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
-Oprah Winfrey
A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
-J. Paul Getty
The greatest things on earth have been done little by little.
-Thomas Guthrie
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
-Hugh White
You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
-Katharine Hepburn
I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
-Booker T. Washington
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
-Chinese Proverb
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition.
-Arthur Rubinstein
Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a ‘must’ and ‘want’.
-Jim Rohn
Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what we can be.
-Morris Adler
I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.
-Anonymous
A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
-J. Paul Getty
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do.
-Kathleen Winsor
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
-Hindu proverb
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
-Lee Iacocca
People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.
-Stedma
Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction.
-Matthew Burton
When you fight something, you’re tied to it forever. As long as you’re fighting it, you’re giving it power.
-Anthony de Mello
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-James Joyce