Category — Quotes from Dictionary of Encouragement

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities.  One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities.

Encouragement Always.

When you realize who you are, you understand that nothing can stop you from becoming that person.

Encouragement Always.

Obstacles are like wild animals.  They are cowards but they will bluff if you can.  If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Encouragement Always.

Nobody trips over the mountain.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will have crossed the mountain.  (Author Unknown)

Encouragement Always.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Encouragement Always.

Take chances, make mistakes.  That’s how you grow.  Pain nourishes courage.  You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Encouragement Always.

Motivation is a trap.  Forget motivation.  Just do it.  And then guess what?  After you start doing this, that’s when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep doing it.

Encouragement Always.

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

Encouragement Always.

1.  You can’t turn back the clock.   But you can wind it up again.  (Bonnie Prudden)

2.  Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.  (Shaun Alexander)

3.  Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.  (Steven Wright)

Encouragement Always.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. 

Encouragement Always.