We all have bad days and dry spells. We all experience moments of disappointment, sadness, and self-doubt. And occasionally, we all need an encouraging word—or several—to lift our spirits, boost our confidence, and fill us with hope.
From an assortment of authors, icons, and experts, here are 55+ quotes for those days when you need a little encouragement—or maybe a lot!
1. "We're all rough drafts of the people we're still becoming." -,
2. "We are all a little broken. But last time I checked, broken crayons still color the same." -,
3. "Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important: whatever teaches us to sing ourselves out of despair." -,
4. "She encouraged them, allowed them to encourage her. She needed them. Because she was still not sure she could do what she had set out to do." -,
5. "Never stunt your own growth by dismissing something just because it doesn't feel familiar." -,
6. "Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement." -,
7. "A river is made drop by drop." -,
8. "The work you put in when no one is watching will matter far more than the work you do when the cameras are rolling." -,
9. "I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, powerful, engaged people? Are busy doing." -,
10. "If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you’re good enough. Just do it. Be generous. Offer a gift to the world that no one else can offer: yourself." -,
11. "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it—but all that had gone before." -,
12."The merit of all things lies in their difficulty." -,
13. "Truthbomb: Crossing the starting line, where nobody cheering for you, and nobody believes in you, is always a bigger deal than crossing the finish line where everybody cheers you on." -,
