Encouragement Quotes for Letters & Cards

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

— J. K. Rowling

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”

— Walt Whitman

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

— Frida Kahlo

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

— Maya Angelou

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”

— Victor Hugo

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”

— Winston Churchill

“Don't count the days, make the days count.”

— Muhammad Ali

“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

— A. A. Milne

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”

— Bob Marley

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

— Helen Keller

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

— Arthur Ashe

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”

— Brian Tracy

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

— Steve Jobs

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

— Suzy Kassem

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

— Walt Disney

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”

— Emily Dickinson

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

— Lao Tzu

“Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.”

— Unknown

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

— Thomas Edison

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

— Babe Ruth

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”

— Winston Churchill

“Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.”

— Henry Ford

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

— Helen Keller

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

— Mark Twain

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

— Japanese Proverb

“You are stronger than you know.”

— Unknown

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

— Albert Einstein

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

— Buddha

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

— William James

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”

— Booker T. Washington

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

— Mark Twain

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

— J. K. Rowling

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

— Stephen Hawking

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”

— Maya Angelou

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

— Victor Hugo

“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!'”

— Audrey Hepburn

“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

— Thomas Edison

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

— Thomas Paine

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”

— C. S. Lewis

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

— Robert H. Schuller

“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”

— Rumi

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

— Winston Churchill

“The comeback is always stronger than the setback.”

— Unknown

“You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Out of difficulties grow miracles.”

— Jean de La Bruyère

“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“This too shall pass.”

— Unknown

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

— Confucius

“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”

— Christian D. Larson

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

— J. K. Rowling

“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”

— Wayne Gretzky

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

— Chinese Proverb

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

— Walt Disney

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The best way out is always through.”

— Robert Frost

“When it rains, look for rainbows. When it's dark, look for stars.”

— Unknown

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

— Helen Keller

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

— Dolly Parton

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

— Oliver Goldsmith

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”

— Plutarch

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.”

— Carol Burnett

“Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.”

— Unknown

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”

— Nelson Mandela

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

— Thomas Edison

“Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”

— Sam Levenson

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”

— George Addair

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

— George Eliot

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

— Mark Twain

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”

— Walter Elliot

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”

— Rumi

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

— Confucius

“One day at a time.”

— Unknown

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

— Zig Ziglar

“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.”

— Jack Kornfield

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

— C. S. Lewis

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.”

— Unknown

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

— Robert Collier

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

— Jimmy Dean