Often times in life we face all kinds of challenges, disappointments, heartbreaks etc and most times we tend to give up in life. Sometimes we wake up in the morning to discover that our mood has suddenly shifted from that happy state it was last night to a moody state without any reason, it happens in life but you can actually control it. Here are some encouraging quotes to help you get out of that moody state and start off with a blast!<\/p>\n
1. “She who kneels before God can stand before anyone.” (Unknown)<\/p>\n
2. Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the…. place where it leads.
\n— Erica<\/p>\n
3. Goals are dreams with — Diana Schart<\/p>\n
4. I am only one, but still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can — Helen Keller<\/p>\n
5. “Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.” (Billy Graham)<\/p>\n
6. “Preach the Gospel, if necessary, use words!” (Author Unknown)<\/p>\n
7. “If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.” (Vance Havner)<\/p>\n
8. It’s beauty that captures your attention, but personality that captures your heart. — Anon<\/p>\n
9. It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. — Lena Horne<\/p>\n
10. I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it. — Margaret Thatcher<\/p>\n
11. You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream; you’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself. — Diana Ross<\/p>\n\n
12. You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. — Lydia M. Child<\/p>\n
13. You must do the think you think you cannot do -Eleanor Roosevelt<\/p>\n
14. The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy – and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You’ll make the sofa in the end. — Pam Brown<\/p>\n
15. The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances. — Martha Washington<\/p>\n
16. The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. — Hannah Whitall Smith<\/p>\n
17. Men have the grand vision, and they pass it on to somebody else to put into practice. Women follow the details more, they want to know that it is being put into practice.
\n— Mary Eugenia Charles<\/p>\n
18. Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone should be. — Clementine Paddleford<\/p>\n
19. Nothing in life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it. — Ellen Glasgow<\/p>\n
20. We won’t always know whose lives we touched and made better for our having cared because actions can sometimes have unforeseen ramifications. What’s important is that you do care and you act. — Charlotte Lunsford<\/p>\n
21. Well-behaved women rarely make history. — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich<\/p>\n
22. When we have the courage to speak out – to break our silence – we inspire the rest of the “moderates” in our communities to speak up and voice their views. — Sharon Schuster<\/p>\n
23. I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word and thought throughout our lifetime. — Elisabethe Kubler-Ross<\/p>\n
24. I can do no great things, only small things with great love. — Mother Teresa<\/p>\n
25. I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it’s only a choice of attitude. — Judith M. Knowlton<\/p>\n
26. “To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”
\n(Martin Luther King Jr)<\/p>\n\n
27. “God understands our prayers even when we can’t find the words to say them.” (Unknown)<\/p>\n
28. “Every evening I turn my troubles over to God – He’s going to be up all night anyway.” (Donald J. Morgan)<\/p>\n
29. “Be assured, if you walk with Him (God) and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never fail.”
\n(George Mueller)<\/p>\n
30. “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.” (Charles Wesley)<\/p>\n
31. “When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn’t that the best position from which to pray?” (Anonymous)<\/p>\n
32. “You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God.” (Unknown)<\/p>\n
33. “Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” (Corrie Ten Boom)<\/p>\n
34. “Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.” (Henry Ward Beecher)<\/p>\n
35. Of all things you wear, your expression is the most important. — Anon<\/p>\n
36. So celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
\n— Mia Hamm<\/p>\n
37.Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. — Author Unknown<\/p>\n
38. “Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.” (George MacDonald)<\/p>\n
39. “Relying on God has to start all over everyday, as if nothing has yet been done.” (C.S.Lewis)<\/p>\n
40.\u00a0want to be all that I am capable of becoming.– Katherine Mansfield<\/p>\n\n
41. “The measure of a life, after all, is not the duration, but it’s donation.” (Corrie Ten Boom)<\/p>\n
42. “When Satan reminds us of our past, we should remind him of his future.” (Author Unknown)<\/p>\n
43. “Wishing will never be a substitute for prayer.” (Ed Cole)<\/p>\n
44. If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. — Margaret Thatcher<\/p>\n
45. If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. — Anita Roddick<\/p>\n
46. I’m not happy, I’m cheerful. There’s a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them. — Beverly Sills<\/p>\n
47. Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be. — Caroline Dall<\/p>\n
48. Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we’ve learned and create something. — Liz Carpenter<\/p>\n
See Also:\u00a0South African Pastors: Ten Times They Did Very Crazy Things<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n 49. “On the plane home I remember thinking that I am who I am because I have faith in myself, and it has always been the possibility of emotionally rewarding the experiences that has encouraged me to gamble on myself; those experiences have made all that I do worthwhile.” 50. “The smallest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions.” Robin Sharma<\/p>\n 51. “If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf.” 52. “Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently. William Arthur Ward<\/p>\n 53. “It’s amazing how far you will get by just staying with something long enough. Most people give up too early.”<\/p>\n 54. “Keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.”<\/p>\n\n 55. “Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.” 56. I’ve discovered a beautiful paradox: giving others what you yourself need can be potent medicine for your own life.<\/p>\n 57. “If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.”<\/p>\n 58. “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.” 59.”…words can be a powerful healing tool if used with loving intention, to uplift, encourage and inspire.” \u00a0John McLeod<\/p>\n 60. “Each day is a new life. Each moment is really a new life. What we call memories are really present thoughts. What we call anticipations are really present thoughts. No one has ever lived in any moment except the present.”<\/p>\n 61. “Remember this always – you are going through this you will not stay in this circumstance.” Donna Schmier, Unshakable Faith<\/p>\n 62. “Believe in yourself. You must do that which you think you cannot.”<\/p>\n 63. “Most people claim that they feel like they’re trapped in a rat race, without an exit. While we can all feel this way from time to time, it’s important to know that there is a way out.”<\/p>\n 64. “When you feel like giving up, like calling it quits, just try one more time – do that little bit more.”<\/p>\n 65. “Life can change in a moment, so we must appreciate every single day we are given.”<\/p>\n 66. “You must rise above present discouragement and keep driving steadily and cheerfully forward, as all great persons have had to do.”<\/p>\n 67. “With our own shortcomings, we are in no position to judge anyone else. The best way to forget the faults of others is to remember our own.”<\/p>\n 68. “Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away time\u00a0 from finding your solutions.”<\/p>\n 69. “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” Jack Layton<\/p>\n 70. “There’s much you can’t change, but there’s something important you can change: you.” Rick Warren<\/p>\n 71. “Give children encouragement, they will gain confidence, they will perform better.” M. K. Soni<\/p>\n 72. “We do learn something about ourselves when we are up against the wall, and we do most certainly come out stronger.”<\/p>\n 73. “We want to add beliefs that build us up, encourage us and support us. We want beliefs that are ‘the wind beneath our wings’, causing us to soar and to be all we can be.”<\/p>\n 74. “The brain cannot process the information you learned during the day while you are awake. You need to be asleep.”<\/p>\n 75. “We are all valuable. We are all worthy. Just the fact that we were born makes us all precious and unique.”<\/p>\n 76. “You’re never beaten until you admit it.” 77. “You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.” 78. “Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.” Elvis Presley<\/p>\n 79. “If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams.”<\/p>\n\n 80. “Even when you can’t feel deep in your heart any words of encouragement, just believe in your dream and your heart will finally show you the way.”<\/p>\n 81. “Giving someone encouraging words can sometimes mean more than a material gift. Those encouraging words can be just the influence the person may have needed to continue.”<\/p>\n 82. “One minute of encouragement has more impact than an hour of preaching.<\/p>\n 83. “The more you practice stepping into other peoples’ shoes, the more you’ll experience the results and benefits. This encourages and inspires you to do it even more.” 84. “Successful achievers don’t necessarily follow a path, they make one.”<\/p>\n 85. “The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”<\/p>\n 86. “You are the only one who can make it happen for you. Others can support and encourage you, but you have to find the energy within in order to step into the centre of your own life and take charge.”<\/p>\n 87. “We don’t have to wait for something nice to happen to us, we can be aggressive and do something nice for ourselves.”<\/p>\n 88. “It seems that success is not acquired by doing what we want to do but doing the tasks necessary to make it happen. ”<\/p>\n 89. “Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.” Robert Martin<\/p>\n 90. “If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.”<\/p>\n 91. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.<\/p>\n 92. “Sometimes the greatest encouragement one can receive is the discouragement of a nonbeliever.” 93. “The secret to happiness. . . be satisfied and be grateful. Mitch Albom<\/p>\n 94. “True contentment comes with empathy.” Tim Finn<\/p>\n 95. “The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.” Vance Havner<\/p>\n\n 96. “Today is the oldest you have been, and the youngest you will ever be. Make the most of it!” Nicky Gumbel<\/p>\n 97. “It’s amazing what eliminating energy drains can do to our mood. Remember how good you felt when you finally went through your closet and cleaned out the old clothes that you were sure you’d wear again someday?” Cheryl Richardson<\/p>\n 98. “How often do we hesitate to pursue our dreams because we feel deficient in talent, knowledge, or experience – the perceived roots of success. But chances are that we carry untapped strengths and abilities which, when enfolded within the mist of optimism, can conspire to accomplish marvellous things.”<\/p>\n 99. “Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Pray. Trust God. Enjoy life. Don\u2019t let the little things get you down.” Nicky Gumble<\/p>\n 100. “As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, ‘Thank God He did not answer my prayers’ or ‘Thank God He answered my prayers,’ whichever the case may be.” Greg Laurie<\/p>\n See Also:\u00a0South African Story: Ten Movies That Tell Most Of It<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n 101. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” 102. “The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.”<\/p>\n 103. “Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that doesn’t turn out the way you’re given the impression that they will. And I think that’s all kind of a con. But I think we’ve probably all been hurt.” 104. “That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.” 105. “When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.” Saint Francis de Sales<\/p>\n 106. “Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.” \u00a0Max Ehrmann<\/p>\n 107. “Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” Eleanor Roosevelt<\/p>\n 108. “Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” Emory Austin<\/p>\n 109. Follow your dreams, except for the one where you’re naked in church\u00a0– Rev. David Ault<\/p>\n 110. It’s good to shut up sometimes\u00a0– Marcel Marceau (famous mime)<\/p>\n\n 111. You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself- Sam Levenson<\/p>\n 112. It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water\u00a0– Franklin P. Jones<\/p>\n 113. A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey\u00a0– Dolly Parton<\/p>\n 114. You must pay for your sins,\u00a0If you have already paid, please ignore this notice\u00a0– Sam Levenson<\/p>\n 115. I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened\u00a0– Will Rogers<\/p>\n 116. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest\u00a0– Mark Twain<\/p>\n 117. When I hear someone sigh that life is hard, I am tempted to ask, \u2018compared to what?’ 118. One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget\u00a0– Franklin P. Jones<\/p>\n 119. Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted\u00a0– Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n 120. You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club\u00a0– Jack London<\/p>\n 121. Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous\u00a0– Albert Einstein<\/p>\n 122. There is a dearth of mirth on the earth\u00a0– Bill Nelson<\/p>\n 123. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything\u00a0– Mark Twain<\/p>\n 124. There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded\u00a0– Mark Twain<\/p>\n 125. Write a wise saying and your name will live forever\u00a0– Anonymous<\/p>\n 126. When you’re out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that’s the trick\u00a0– Henri Matisse<\/p>\n 127. Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example\u00a0– La Rochefoucauld<\/p>\n 128. If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck\u00a0– Elvis Presley<\/p>\n 129. The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it\u00a0– Franklin P. Jones<\/p>\n 130. If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right\u00a0– Jules Renard<\/p>\n 131. When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win\u00a0– Henny Youngman<\/p>\n 132. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake\u00a0– Napoleon Bonaparte<\/p>\n 133. Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not\u00a0– Vaclav Havel<\/p>\n 134. I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell\u00a0– Harry S Truman<\/p>\n 135. Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand\u00a0– Mark Twain<\/p>\n 136. There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or ploughing through… There needs to be a monster truck option\u00a0– Jeph Jacques<\/p>\n\n 137. Laughter is a weapon of mass construction\u00a0– Kat Caverly<\/p>\n 138. Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes\u00a0– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach<\/p>\n 139. A good time for laughing is when you can\u00a0– Jessamyn West<\/p>\n 140. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is\u00a0– Chuck Reid<\/p>\n 141. Live each day like it’s your second to the last. That way you can fall asleep at night\u00a0– Jason Love \u200f@jasonlovetwit<\/p>\n 142. It’s okay to look at the past and the future. Just don’t stare\u00a0– Anonymous<\/p>\n 143. Don’t mind your make-up, you’d better make your mind up\u00a0– Frank Zappa<\/p>\n 144. Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room\u00a0– Winston Churchill<\/p>\n 145. Money won’t make you happy … but everybody wants to find out for themselves\u00a0– Zig Ziglar<\/p>\n 146. People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing\u00a0– Will Rogers<\/p>\n 147. It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips\u00a0– Fred Allen<\/p>\n 148. You can’t have everything. Where would you put it\u00a0– Steven Wright<\/p>\n 149. You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.\u00a0– James Thurber<\/p>\n 150. Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat\u00a0– Harry Emerson Fosdick<\/p>\nEncouragement Quotes for Work<\/span><\/h2>\n
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\n– Sydney Harris<\/p>\n